Omani Arabic

Omani Arabic
Native to	Oman
Region	Hajar mountains and a few coastal towns
Native speakers	720,000 in Oman (1996)^[1] 320,000 in UAE (no date),^[1] 15,000 in Kenya (1995)^[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Peninsular Omani Arabic
Writing system	Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`acx`
Glottolog	`oman1239`^[2]

Omani Arabic (also known as Omani Hadari Arabic) is a variety of Arabic dialect spoken in the Hajar Mountains of Oman and in a few neighboring coastal regions. It is the easternmost Arabic dialect. It was formerly spoken by colonists in Kenya and Tanzania, but most or all of them have shifted to Swahili. There are several distinct dialects of Omani Arabic, such as Dhofari Arabic and Shihhi Arabic.

References

1 2 3 Omani Arabic at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Omani Arabic". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Varieties of Arabic

Pre-Islamic

Old Arabic
- Hismaic
- Safaitic
Related languages of North Arabia
- Dadanitic
- Taymanitic
- Thamudic

Modern literary

Peninsular

Northeastern	Gulf Omani Shihhi Dhofari Kuwaiti Najdi

Western	Bareqi Hejazi Sedentary Bedouin

Southern	Baharna Yemeni Hadhrami Sanaani Ta'izzi-Adeni Tihami Judeo-Yemeni

Northwestern	Bedouin

Eastern

Mesopotamian	North Mesopotamian Cypriot Maronite Anatolian Judeo-Iraqi South Mesopotamian Baghdad Koiné Khuzestani

Central Asian	Afghani Khorasani Central Asian Arabic

Levantine

North Levantine	North Syrian Central Levantine Central Syrian Lebanese

South Levantine	Jordanian Palestinian Urban Central village Outer southern

Nilo-Egyptian

Western

Iberian

Andalusian

Maghrebi

Pre-Hilalian	Urban Eastern Village Sahel Lesser Kabylia Western Village Traras-Msirda Mountain Judeo-Maghrebi Arabic Judeo-Moroccan Judeo-Tripolitanian Judeo-Tunisian

Hilalian	Sulaym Libyan koiné Eastern Hilal Tunisian koiné Central Hilal Algerian koiné Central and Saharan Eastern Algerian Western Algerian Maqil Western Moroccan Eastern Moroccan Moroccan koiné Hassānīya

Siculo-Arabic

Maltese
Sicilian

Undescribed

Shirvani

Judeo-Arabic

Creoles and pidgins

Italics indicate extinct languages.

Languages of Oman

Official language	Arabic

Main foreign language	English

Minority languages	Balochi Bathari Harsusi Hobyót Kumzari Luwati Mehri Shehri Swahili

Varieties of Arabic	Bahrani Arabic Omani Arabic Dhofari Shihhi

Sign languages	Omani Sign Language

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