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Omani Arabic (Northern) (Shawawi Arabic)

Phylum: Semitic

Genus: Arabic

Lat/lon: 22.920247, 57.790937

ISO code: acx

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velarlabio-dentaldentalalveolarpostalveolarpalatalvelaruvularpharyngealglottal
stopbt, dɟkqʔ
trillr
fricativefθ, ðsʃx, ɣħ, ʕ
nasalmn
approximantwj
lateral approximantl

Short pharyngealised series

dentalalveolar
stop
fricativeðˤ

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closeiu
opena

Long series

frontcentralback
close
close-mid
open

Licit initial clusters

CC

Licit finals

C{-r}

Source: Eades, Domenyk. 2009. Enam Al-Wer and Rudolf de Jong (eds.) Arabic Dialectology. In honour of Clive Holes on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday. Brill: Leiden; Boston. 77–98.

Comments: The palatal plosive /ɟ/ is in free variation with [dʒ] (etymological variant), which is especially common after nasals. In most neighbouring (sedentary) dialects, it was replaced with /g/. [u] is user to break final clusters with /r/.

Contributed by: Dmitry Nikolaev (dnikolaev@fastmail.com)