Khorasani Arabic

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Khorasani Arabic
Native toIran
Native speakers
5,000 (2014)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3auz
Glottologkhor1274

Khorasani Arabic is a

Khorasan.[2] Khorasani Arabic is not taught in school and is not widely spoken by the Khorasani Arab
community.

According to Kees Versteegh, there are between 5,000 and 10,000 Khorasani Arabic speakers. Khorasani Arabic may be related to Central Asian Arabic. It is influenced by Persian.[3]

References

  1. ^ Khorasani Arabic at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Ulrich Seeger, On the Relationship of the Central Asian Arabic Dialects (translated from German to English by Sarah Dickins)
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