Domari language
Domari is a language spoken by the Dom of the Middle East. It is a Indo-Aryan language. It is endangered because the young have shifted to Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish and Kurdish[4], [5]
| Domari | |
|---|---|
| Dōmʋārī, Dōmʋārī ǧib, Dômarî ĵib, דּוֹמָרִי ,دٛومَرِي | |
| Native to | Azerbaijan, Mauritania, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Israel, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Sudan, and perhaps neighboring countries[1] | 
| Region | Middle East and North Africa, Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia | 
| Ethnicity | Dom | 
| Native speakers | 281,670 (2015)[2] | 
| Indo-European
 
 | |
| Dialects | 
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| Latin, Arabic, Hebrew | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | rmt | 
| Glottolog | doma1258 | 
|  Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
References
    
- Matras (2012)
- Domari at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
- Domari language at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
- https://www.academia.edu/16288481/Domari_the_language_of_the_Middle_Eastern_Gypsies
- Romani.humanities.manchester.ac.uk
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