Luwati
[aka Lawatiyya, Lawatiya, Khojki]Classification: Indo-European
·vulnerable
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Vulnerable
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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30,000-50,000
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"No official statistics are available to the public as to the actual numbers of the various ethnolinguistic minorities
in [Oman], however, estimates of the Lawatiya community in the 1970s range from 5,000 to 10,000 (Peterson, 2004) and 30,000 to 50,000 in 2010, or 3 per cent of the national population (Valeri, 2010)."
- DATE OF INFO
- 2010
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
"[Speakers of Lawatiyya] are mostly concentrated in the capital area of Muscat. A small number of families, however, are also found in the coastal towns of Saham, Barka, Khabura and Musana (Peterson, 2004)."