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| Dhofari Arabic | |
|---|---|
| Zofari Arabic | |
| Native to | Oman |
| Speakers | 130,000 (2020)[1] |
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| 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]
Phonology
[edit]Consonants
[edit]| Labial | Interdental | Dental/Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | emph. | plain | emph. | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||||||
| Stop | voiceless | t | tˤ | k | q | ʔ | |||||
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | ||||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | θ | s | sˤ | ʃ | x | ħ | h | ||
| voiced | ð | ðˤ | z | (ʒ) | ɣ | ʕ | |||||
| Tap | ɾ | ||||||||||
| Approximant | l | (lˤ) | j | w | |||||||
Vowels
[edit]| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | u uː |
| Mid | eː | oː |
| Open | a aː | |
- A schwa sound [ə] may also occur as a lax realization of short vowels.
| Phoneme | Sound/Allophones |
|---|---|
| /i/ | [i], [ɪ] |
| /a/ | [æ], [ɑ] |
| /u/ | [u], [ʊ] |
| /aː/ | [æː], [ɑː] |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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.
Bibliography
[edit]- Davey, Richard J. (2013). Coastal Dhofārī Arabic: a sketch grammar (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
- Davey, Richard J. (2016). Coastal Dhofari Arabic: A Sketch Grammar. Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics. Vol. 87. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-31670-6. OCLC 1264422220.
- Rhodokanakis, Nikolaus (1908). Der Vulgärarabische Dialekt im Đofâr (Ẓfâr). OCLC 503848016.
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