Kumzari dialect

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• Indo-European languages Indo-Iranian languages Iranian languages Westiranisch Southwest - Iranian Lurische dialects Kumzari

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Kumzari, spoken on the belonging to Oman Musandam Peninsula in the region Kumzar, is the only Iranian language that is native to the Arabian Peninsula. Kumzari speakers can be found both in the cities of al - Khasab and Dibah as well as in several villages on the island and Larak.

The speakers are usually descendants of fishermen in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.

The language evolved from early modern Persian and is closely related to the Minabi from southern Baluchistan. The majority of the vocabulary and the grammatical and syntactical structure of Kumzari is Iranian, even though many everyday words of Arabic dialects, and also isolated from European languages ​​such as Portuguese or English come (eg, " Dor " from engl. "Door " ). For Kumzari exists no written language and no literature.

It is estimated that the Kumzari spokesman on less than ten thousand, although the root of the Shihuh whose language is the Kumzari, twenty thousand members counts. Children Arabic is taught instead of Kumzari more and more.