Omani Arabic

Omani Arabic (اللهجة العمانية; also known as Omani Hadari Arabic) is a variety of Arabic spoken in the Al Hajar Mountains of Oman and in a few neighboring coastal regions. It is the easternmost Arabic dialect. It was formerly spoken by colonists in Kenya and Tanzania, but these days, it mainly remains spoken on the island of Zanzibar.

Consonants

 * Velar fricatives can be heard as uvular sounds, in the Muscat dialect.
 * can also be heard as palatalized sounds among the Muscat dialect.
 * can be heard as an allophone of, but is rarely phonemic.
 * As for most [Omani] dialects, Standard Arabic is replaced with the velar stop  $⟨ج⟩$, while  is available in some Omani dialects, mainly Bedouin.
 * The speakers of Muscat, Salalah and some Batina varieties (e.g. the center of Sohar city), as well as other sedentary dialect speakers, pronounce $⟨ق⟩$ as, while the Bedouin dialect speakers pronounce  as . and this variable  has been a hallmark for distinguishing Bedouin and Hadari (urban) Arabs for centuries.

Vowels

 * can be heard as when preceding  or any non-emphatic consonant. It is heard as back  after emphatic sounds, and can then be heard as  when shortened. Its long equivalent, is heard as  after emphatic sounds.
 * can be heard as in medial position and as  in shortened positions.
 * Sounds are often realized as near-close back sounds .  can sometimes be heard as  or  after emphatics.