Domari language

Domari
Domari
Native to	Afghanistan, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, Libya, Russia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey
Native speakers	Iran:; 1,338,271; Iraq:; 439,230; Egypt:; 234,000; India:; 201,787; Libya:; 31,738; Turkey:; 28,461; Syria:; 10,000; Jordan:; 4,913; Israel, West Bank and Gaza:; 2,000
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central zone Domari; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-2	inc
ISO 639-3	rmt

Domari is an Indo-Aryan language closely related to Romani, Rajasthani and eastern Punjabi. It is spoken by the Dom people across the Middle East, mainly in Iran, Egypt, Turkey, Palestine/Israel, and Iraq. 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 term in Arabic for this language is Nawari, although this may be seen as derogatory.

External links

This Indo-European languages-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.