Domari is a language spoken by the Dom of the Middle East.
It is an Indo-Aryan language. It is endangered because the young have shifted to Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish and Kurdish,
Domari | |
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Dōmʋārī, Dōmʋārī ǧib, Dômarî ĵib, דּוֹמָרִי ,دٛومَرِي | |
Native to | Azerbaijan, Mauritania, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Israel, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Sudan, and perhaps neighboring countries |
Region | Middle East and North Africa, Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia |
Ethnicity | Dom |
Native speakers | 281,670 (2015) |
Indo-European
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Dialects |
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Latin, Arabic, Hebrew | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | rmt |
Glottolog | doma1258 |
Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |
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