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Dhofari Arabic
Zofari Arabic
Native toOman
Speakers130,000 (2020)[1]
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
  • Semitic
    • Central Semitic
      • Arabic
        • Peninsular
          • Dhofari Arabic
Writing system
Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3adf
Glottologdhof1235
Location of Dhofari Arabic

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]

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]

  1. ^ a b Dhofari Arabic at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Davey 2016, Abstract.
  3. ^ "639 Identifier Documentation: adf". sil.org. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  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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