Key facts
- Native to
- Oman , United Arab Emirates
- Region
- Kumzar , Hajar Mountains
- Ethnicity
- Kumzar , Shihuh
- Native speakers
- 6,000 (2011–2023)
- Language family
- Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Southwestern Kumzari
- Iso 639 3
- zum
- Glottolog
- kumz1235
- Elp
- Kumzari
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Kumzari (Persian: کمزاری, Arabic: كمزارية) is a Southwestern Iranian language that has similarities with Persian, Luri, Achomi and Balochi languages. Although vulnerable, it survives today with between 4,000 and 5,000 speakers. It is spoken by the Iranic Kumzari people and the Bedouin Shihuh tribe on the Kumzar coast of the Musandam Peninsula (northern Oman). Kumzari speakers are also found in the towns of Dibba and Khasab as well as various villages and on Larak Island in Iran.
Kumzari is the only Iranian language spoken exclusively in the Arabian Peninsula.
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