Domari language
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| Domari | ||
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| Spoken in: | Afghanistan, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, Libya, Russia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey | |
| Total speakers: | Iran: 1,338,271 Iraq: |
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| Language family: | Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central zone Domari |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | inc | |
| ISO 639-3: | rmt | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Domari is an Indo-Aryan language closely related to Romani, Rajasthani and eastern Punjabi. It is spoken by the Dom people across the Middle East, namely in Iran, Egypt, Turkey, Palestine/Israel, and Iraq. There is no standard written form. In the Arab world, it is occasionally written using the Arabic script and has many Arabic and Farsi (Persian) loanwords.[1]
The term in Arabic for this language is Nawari, although this may be seen as derogatory.
[edit] External links
- Description of Domari from the Romani Project
- Learning Domari - from the Dom Research Centre
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