Indo-European · ISO 639-3 rmt
Domari Language دٛومَرِي
Domari is an Indo-European language spoken by about 1.3 million people in 2 countries. It is written in the Perso-Arabic script.
Where Domari is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Domari language
Domari (دٛومَرِي) is spoken by about 1.3 million people, which makes it the 402nd most spoken language in the world — just behind Chechen (1.4 million) and ahead of Avaric (1.3 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Indo-Aryan Central zone group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Domari spoken?
Domari is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in Iran (1.7 million) and Egypt (280,000).
Share of the population that speaks Domari: Iran 1.9% (1.7 million) and Egypt 0.3% (280,000).
Domari is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Domari is written in the Perso-Arabic script. Glottolog classifies it as moribund, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Hindi, Urdu, Haryanvi, Kanauji, Bundeli, Fiji Hindi and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 rmt.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.