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1 Phonology  


1.1  Consonants  




1.2  Vowels  






2 See also  




3 References  




4 Bibliography  













Dhofari Arabic






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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
(Redirected from ISO 639:adf)
Dhofari Arabic
Zofari Arabic
Native toOman
Speakers130,000 (2020)[1]

Language family

Afro-Asiatic

Writing system

Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3adf
Glottologdhof1235

Location of Dhofari Arabic

Dhofari Arabic, also known as DhofariorZofari, is a varietyofArabic spoken around SalalahinOman'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

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Consonants

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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

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Front Back
Close i iː u uː
Mid eː oː
Open a aː
Phoneme Sound/Allophones
/i/ [i], [ɪ]
/a/ [æ], [ɑ]
/u/ [u], [ʊ]
/aː/ [æː], [ɑː]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Dhofari ArabicatEthnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  • ^ 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.

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