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Domari is an Indo-Aryan language, spoken by the Dom people across the Middle East, North Africa, Caucasus, Central Asia and India. The language is known to be spoken among Dom people in Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Iraq, Palestine/Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Syria and Lebanon. The other Indo-Aryan language still spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan is Zargari Romani, a variety of European Romani. Domari is one of the most conservative modern Indo-Aryan languages. In the Hunza valley in the north of Pakistan there is a population called the Ḍum, who are also metalworkers and musicians, and who speak a Central Indic (i.e. not a local) language. Based on the systematicity of sound changes attested in these languages, we know with a fair degree of certainty that these names all derive from the Indian term ḍom. Domari is also known as Middle Eastern Romani, Tsigene, Luti, or Mehtar. Dialects include: Nawari in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Palestinian Territories and Egypt. Kurbati in Syria and western Iran Helebi in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco Halab/Ghajar in Sudan. Karachi in northern Turkey, northern Iran, the Caucasus and southern Russia Marashi in Turkey Lyuli and Maznoug in Uzbekistan and Asian Russia Barake in Syria Churi-Wali in Afghanistan Domaki and Wogri-Boli in India Some dialects may be highly divergent and not mutually intelligible. Published sources often lump together dialects of Domari and the various unrelated in-group vocabularies of diverse peripatetic populations in the Middle East. Thus there is no evidence at all that the Lyuli, for example, speak a dialect of Domari, not is there any obvious connection between Domari and the vocabulary used by the Helebi of Egypt (see discussion in Matras 2012, chapter 1).
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