Dhofari Arabic

Dhofari Arabic, also known as Dhofari or Zofari, is a variety of Arabic spoken around Salalah in Oman's Dhofar Governorate. It has the ISO 639-3 language code "adf".

Nomadic and sedentary communities living in the area speak Dhofari Arabic as a first language, second language, or lingua franca, with varying degrees of fluency.

Consonants

 * only rarely occurs among speakers
 * mostly occurs in formal speech.

Vowels

 * A schwa sound may also occur as a lax realization of short vowels.