The Kumzari or Kumzar (کومزاري) are an Iranian ethnic group[citation needed] native to the Musandam peninsula in northern Oman. They speak the Kumzari language along with the Shihuh tribe who are Arabs unlike the Kumzar. They are traditional fisherman.[4]
^"Rare language also under threat in Straits of Hormuz". 13 April 2012.
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elected by the Kumzari and Shihuh people of Kumzar. Many Kumzari shaikhs married people outside of their village like Labtiab. Kumzari men perform traditional...
Kumzari may refer to: Kumzari language, an Iranian language spoken in northern Oman Kumzaripeople, an ethnic group of Iranian and Arab origin who speak...
own language, known as Kumzari. There are multiple hypotheses on the origin of the name 'Kumzar.' A large number of native Kumzaris believe that the name...
particularly those in Ras Al Khaimah and Dibba, are of Kumzari ancestry and also communicate in Kumzari. Additionally, many Ajam are of Afro-Iranian and Huwala...
(PDF). United states institute of peace. Retrieved 15 September 2020. "Kumzari". Planhol, Xavier de. "IRAN i. LANDS OF IRAN". Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol...
Thomas to the Musandam Peninsula. 1928. Notes on Shihuh dialects & people, also Kumzaris' [10r]. British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers...
Muscat (Oman's capital) into the leading port of the Persian Gulf. Omani people are ethnically diverse; the Omani citizen population consists of many different...
Greater Iran, irrespective of whether they were actually ethnic Persian people. In any case, the term "Parsi" itself is "not necessarily an indication...
the south. The language is closely related to Bashkardi, Larestani and Kumzari. It forms a transitional dialect group to northwestern Iranian Balochi...
and Bahrani Arabic. The Lurs language of Kumzari is also spoken by Omani people of Musandam Peninsula. Kumzari is the only Iranian language native to the...
Thomas to the Musandam Peninsula. 1928. Notes on Shihuh dialects & people, also Kumzaris' [10r]. British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers...
widely spoken in Oman. Endangered indigenous languages in Oman include Kumzari, Bathari, Harsusi, Hobyot, Jibbali and Mehri. Omani Sign Language is the...
Thomas to the Musandam Peninsula. 1928. Notes on Shihuh dialects & people, also Kumzaris' [10r]. British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers...
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media the people of Kumzar are exposed to is in Arabic. There has also been an internalization of outsiders' negative attitudes toward the Kumzari language...
the Middle Iranian rōstāg, meaning "district" (also in Baluchi, Persian, Kumzari, etc.), New Iranian rusta, meaning a 'large village.' The term is a cognate...
Arabic: The Emergence and Proliferation of Uvular-Pharyngeal Emphasis in Kumzari (2020) Toward a Picture of Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari Province, Iran, as...
Thomas to the Musandam Peninsula. 1928. Notes on Shihuh dialects & people, also Kumzaris' [10r]. British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers...
Christopher, ed. (2010). Atlas of the World’ s Languages in Danger. Memory of Peoples (3rd ed.). Paris: UNESCO Publishing. ISBN 978-92-3-104096-2. Retrieved...
following census in 2011 counted 473 people in 109 households. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 421 people in 115 households. It was the most...
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