[Oman-l] More on languages: Luwati

[Joachim Duester]

Someone asked me to supply proverbs in several languages spoken in Oman,
including "Luwati". Well, I do kow a bit about the Luwatiyah, i.e. the
Khojah (or Luti) community in Oman, and everybody on the list probably has
heard of the "Sur Luwatiyah", a walled quarter within Muttrah. But what
language exactly do the Luwatiyah speak? I had not heard of a language
called "Luwati" so far (my Luti friends spoke Arabic and English), but I
found a reference to Luwati as a language in
http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/countries/Oman.html#LUV ,
which classifies Luwati as an Indo-Iranian language.

Calvin Allen, in his 1978 diss. on "Sayyids, shets and sultans", tells us
(p.
123) that the Luwatiyah speak Khojki, a mixture of Kutchi and Sindi.
I did not find Khojki on http://www.sil.org/ethnologue (maybe a different
spelling?) , but http://global.globale.net/~heritage/granths/script.html
describes Khojki as a script.

Who can tell us more about the Luti language? Or about Khojki?

Joachim