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Luwati language

Lawati
Lawatiyya
Luwati in Arabic script.
RegionOman (walled quarter of Muttrah, facing the old harbour; Muscat and other cities)[1]
EthnicityAl-Lawatia
Native speakers
8,900 (2020)[1]
None (words transcribed into Arabic or Persian alphabets)
Language codes
ISO 639-3luv
Glottologluwa1238
ELPLuwati

Luwati (Al-Lawatia, Arabic: اللواتية, romanized: al-lawātiyya; also known as Khoja, Khojki, Lawatiyya, Lawatiya, or Hyderabadi) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by 8,940 people known as the Lawatiya (also called the Khojas or Hyderabadis) in the country of Oman.[1] In total it has been estimated there are 20,000 to 30,000 Lawatiya people.[2] Despite the various names, the Lawatiya refer to the language as Khojki.[3] It is considered an endangered language because a portion of the Lawatiya do not speak Luwati, and it is not continuously passed down to younger generations.[3]

  1. ^ a b c Lawati at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Valeri, M. "Identity Politics and Nation-Building under Sultan Qaboos". Sectarian Politics in the Persian Golf. 179.
  3. ^ a b Al Jahdhami, S. "Minority Languages in Oman". Journal of the Association for Anglo-American Studies. 4: 105–112.

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