[Oman-l] Minawi in Gulf states

[Craig Wallace]

This brings me to ask whether the above community is found in Oman as it is
in Bahrain and elsewhere in the Gulf states?
And can anyone give me info on their language and cultural links.
They are Iranians who believe they come from an area in the SW of Iran and
they say they speak a language (iranian dialect???) called Minawi or some
such.

Anyone able to tell me more detail?

Thanks
 Craig


----- Original Message -----
From: Joachim Duester <jduester@oman.org>
To: <oman-l@oman.org>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 4:21 AM
Subject: [Oman-l] More on languages: Luwati


> 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.
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> 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
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