| Dhofari Arabic | |
|---|---|
| Zofari Arabic | |
| Native to | Oman |
| Speakers | 130,000 (2020)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
| |
| Arabic alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | adf |
| Glottolog | dhof1235 |
 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]
- ^ a b Dhofari Arabic at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Davey 2016, Abstract.
- ^ "639 Identifier Documentation: adf". sil.org. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
- ^ 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.
