Dhofari_Arabic

Dhofari Arabic

Dhofari Arabic

Arabic variety of Oman

Dhofari Arabic, also known as Dhofari or Zofari, is a variety of Arabic spoken around Salalah in Oman's Dhofar Governorate.[1][2] It has the ISO 639-3 language code "adf".[3]

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Nomadic and sedentary communities living in the area speak Dhofari Arabic as a first language, second language, or lingua franca, with varying degrees of fluency.[4]

Phonology

Consonants

More information Labial, Interdental ...
  • [ʒ] only rarely occurs among speakers
  • [lˤ] mostly occurs in formal speech.

Vowels

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  • A schwa sound [ə] may also occur as a lax realization of short vowels.
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See also

References

  1. [1]
    Dhofari Arabic at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. [2]
    Davey 2016, Abstract.
  3. [3]
    "639 Identifier Documentation: adf". sil.org. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  4. [4]
    MORANO, ROBERTA (October 2018). "Richard J. Daley, Coastal Dhofari Arabic: Sketch Grammar". Journal of Semitic Studies. 69 (2): 545–547. doi:10.1093/jss/fgy024.

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