Luwati language
| Luwati | |
|---|---|
| Lawatiyya | |
| Region | Oman (Muttrah walled quarter, facing the old harbor; Muscat and other cities)[1] |
Native speakers | 30,000 (2012)[1] |
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Indo-European
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
luv |
| Glottolog |
luwa1238[2] |
Luwati (or Lawatiyya) is an Indo-Iranian language spoken by between 5,000 and 10,000 people of the Al-Lawati ethnic group in Oman.[3]
Classification
The Luwati language is superficially similar to Kutchi, but retains sounds found in other Sindhi languages and Saraiki but that have been lost from Kutchi.[4]
Phonology
The Luwati language has 37 consonants[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Luwati at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Luwati". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Peterson, John E. 2004. "Oman's diverse society: Northern Oman", Middle East Journal 58(1), pp. 32–51.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Salman, Amel & Kharusi, Nafla S. (2012) ‘The Sound System of Lawatiyya’, Journal of Academic and Applied Studies May Vol. 2(5), pp. 36–44, ISSN1925-931X, available online @ www.academians.org