Afro-Asiatic · ISO 639-3 acx
Omani Arabic Language اللهجة العمانية
Omani Arabic is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by about 3.2 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Perso-Arabic script.
Where Omani Arabic is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Omani Arabic
Language family
- Afro-Asiatic
- Semitic
- West Semitic
- Central Semitic
- Arabian
- Arabic
- Arabian Peninsula Arabic
- North Arabian Beduin Arabic
- Omani Arabic
Writing system
Perso-Arabic script
Related languages
About the Omani Arabic language
Omani Arabic (اللهجة العمانية) is spoken by about 3.2 million people, which makes it the 234th most spoken language in the world — just behind Sankaran Maninka (3.3 million) and ahead of Bundeli (3.2 million). It belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family and, more precisely, to the North Arabian Beduin Arabic group within the West Semitic branch.
Where is Omani Arabic spoken?
Omani Arabic is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Oman (3.2 million). More than half of the population speaks it in Oman — the places where travellers will hear it everywhere.
Omani Arabic is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Omani Arabic is written in the Perso-Arabic script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Najdi Arabic, Sanaani Arabic, Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic, Hijazi Arabic, Hadrami Arabic, Standard Arabic and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 acx.
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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.