Dhofari Arabic

Dhofari Arabic
Dhofari Arabic
Zofari Arabic
Native to	Oman
Speakers	130,000 (2020)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Peninsular Dhofari Arabic; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	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.