The dialect of the Shihuh Arabs , Shihkhi ( Arabic لهجة قبيلة الشحوح , English Shihhi Arabic ) is one of the South Arabian varieties of the Arabic language , distributed among the Arab tribe Shihuh ( Shihu , Arab. شحوح ) in the UAE ( Ras al-Khaimah ) and Oman ( Musandam ).
| Shihuh dialect of the Arabic language | |
|---|---|
| Country | Oman , UAE |
| Regions | Musandam Peninsula |
| Total number of speakers |  : 22,000  : 21,600 |
| Classification | |
| Category | Languages of Eurasia |
Afrasian macro family
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| Writing | - |
| Language Codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | - |
| ISO 639-2 | - |
| ISO 639-3 | ssh |
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| IETF | |
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Shikhuh Arabs moved from Yemen (according to other sources: from Iran [1] ) to the Musandam Peninsula in the 2nd century AD and subsequently mixed with the Balochs who came from the territories of modern Iran and Pakistan . Shihuh Arabs lead a nomadic life, are engaged in animal husbandry, subsistence farming and fishing. Depending on the season, they climb mountains or descend onto the plains. Today, many shihuhs work in the UAE [2] . In the world there are 43,600 speakers of the Shihuh dialect, of which 21,600 live in the UAE (2014) and 22,000 in Oman (2000). Most Shihuh Arabs speak their own dialect, but there is a group (kumzarites) among them whose representatives speak the Iranian language kumzari [3] [4] . The Shikhuh dialect was influenced by the Persian language [5] [6] .
Notes
- ↑ V.L.Bodyansky. East Arabia. History, geography, population, economics . - Science, 1986. - S. 208. - 338 p.
- ↑ John A. Shoup. Ethnic Groups of Africa and the Middle East: An Encyclopedia . - ABC-CLIO, 2011 .-- P. 273. - 377 p. - (Ethnic Groups of the World). - ISBN 9781598843620 .
- ↑ John Gordon Lorimer. Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Geographical and Statistical . - Superintendent Government Printing, 1970.- T. 2. - P. 1809.
- ↑ Donald Hawley. The Trucial States . - Ardent Media, 1970 .-- P. 294. - 377 p. - ISBN 9780049530058 .
- ↑ Alekseev, B. A. All of Asia: A Geographical Reference . - AST, 2003 .-- 311 p. - ISBN 9785897371518 .
- ↑ Arabic, Shihhi Spoken . Ethnologue . Date accessed August 24, 2015.
Literature
- G. Sh. Sharbatov. Iran-Afrasian language contacts . - Science, 1987. - T. 1. - 170 p.