Luwati language

Lawati
Lawatiyya
Region Oman (Muttrah walled quarter, facing the old harbor; Muscat and other cities)[1]
Native speakers
30,000 (2012)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 luv
Glottolog luwa1238[2]

Lawati (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 Lawati 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 Lawati language has 37 consonants[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Lawati at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lawati". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Peterson, John E. 2004. "Oman's diverse society: Northern Oman", Middle East Journal 58(1), pp. 32–51.
  4. 1 2 Salman, Amel & Kharusi, Nafla S. (2012) ‘The Sound System of Lawatiyya’, Journal of Academic and Applied Studies May Vol. 2(5), pp. 36–44, ISSN 1925-931X, available online @ www.academians.org


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