2011/11/11 by Erik Anonby · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis #Global Maritime and Colonial Histories #African history and culture analysis #Peninsula #Geography #Endangered species #History #Archaeology #Demography #Sociology
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s0025100311000314
openalex publication_date 2011/11/11 · openalex created_date 2022/05/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Kumzari is an endangered language spoken by about 4000 people in Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Iran. Speakers of the main dialect are found on the Musandam Peninsula of Oman and in small groups in cities along the Gulf coast of the United Arab Emirates. Laraki, a closely related dialect of the language, is spoken across the Strait of Hormuz by a single community on Larak Island in Iran (Lewis 2011, Anonby & Yousefian in press).