Kumzari language

E132653

The Kumzari language is an endangered Southwestern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Kumzari people in the Musandam Peninsula of Oman.

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Label Occurrences
Kumzari language canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Iranian language
Southwestern Iranian language
endangered language
language
country Oman
United Arab Emirates
endangermentStatus definitely endangered
hasAlternativeName Kumzar
surface form: Kumzari

Kumzari Kumzari
hasGlottocode kumz1238
hasISO6393Code zum
hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Arabic
Balochi
English
Persian language
surface form: Persian

Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
hasLinguisticArea Persian Gulf
hasLinguisticTypology SOV word order
hasNeighboringLanguage Arabic
Persian language
surface form: Persian

Shihhi Arabic
hasNumberOfSpeakers a few thousand
hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
hasTransmissionPattern partially interrupted intergenerational transmission
hasUsageDomain community
home
hasWritingSystem Arabic script
isMinorityLanguageIn Oman
United Arab Emirates
isSubjectOf descriptive grammars
sociolinguistic studies
isThreatenedBy Arabic
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
Southwestern Iranian languages
primarySettlement Kumzar
region Strait of Hormuz
spokenBy Kumzari people
spokenIn Musandam Peninsula
Oman
United Arab Emirates
subclassOf Indo-European language
Indo-Iranian language
Western Iranian language
usedFor oral communication

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