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| Domari | ||
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| Spoken in: | Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, Libya, Russia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey | |
| Total speakers: | Iran: 1,338,271 Iraq: |
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| Language family: | Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central zone Domari |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | inc | |
| ISO 639-3: | rmt | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Domari is an Indo-Aryan language, spoken by the Dom people across the Middle East, mainly in Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, Turkey, Israel/Palestinian territories, and Iraq. Domari was once though to be the "sister language" of Romani, the two languages having split after the departure from the Indian subcontinent, but more recent research suggests that the differences between them are much older. The Dom and the Rom are therefore more likely to be descendents of different migration waves.[1][2] There is no standard written form. In the Arab world, it is occasionally written using the Arabic script and has many Arabic and Persian loanwords.[1]
The Arabic for Domari is Nawari, although this may be seen as derogatory.
References
- ^ What is Domari?, <http://romani.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/files/21_domari.shtml>. Retrieved on 23 July 2008
- ^ ON ROMANI ORIGINS AND IDENTITY, <http://www.radoc.net/radoc.php?doc=art_b_history_origins&lang=en&articles=true>. Retrieved on 23 July 2008
External links
- Description of Domari from the Romani Project
- Learning Domari - from the Dom Research Centre
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