Omani Arabic

Omani Arabic
Omani Arabic
اللهجة العمانية
Native to	Oman
Region	Hajar mountains and a few coastal towns
Native speakers	(720,000 in Oman cited 1996)[1]; 320,000 in UAE (no date),[1] 15,000 in Kenya (1995)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Peninsular Omani Arabic; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	acx
Glottolog	oman1239

Omani Arabic is a dialect of Arabic spoken in Oman, Zanzibar, and parts of Kenya, Somalia, the UAE, Iran, and Pakistan.

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