Oman - A Country Profile
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2024
- This video is all about Oman, a Middle Eastern country located in the eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula. It might not be as world-famous as its neighbor the United Arab Emirates, but it's similar in a way: there is a traditional Arab society living there alongside a large international community of workers. But Oman is far from being a clone of the UAE or any other Gulf state. It has its own distinct history, culture, and geographical features.
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As an Omani, I'm really pleased with the accuracy of your information and description. It's evident that you've done your best in research. Thank you so much.
I agree
*I'm fascinated with Oman. I love everything about your country, especially your currency. Omani Rial is on my top list of the most beautiful currencies in the world. :)*
@@NandiCollector as an omani, this makes me very very happy
@@TheLooker17 Oman is just fascinating. :)
@@NandiCollector very!
As Arabic is my mother tongue, I congratulate you on your perfect pronunciation of the Arabic names of towns and cities which is different from the way non Arabic speaking people do.
He's a language expert and his main channel (Langfocus) is focused on language so it's not surprising that he will pronounce the name accurately
@@Yappin1299 Thank your for your comment. Arabic pronunciation is difficult for non Arabic speakers but his pronunciation is perfect. I did watch some of his shows on his linguistic channel and I was surprised that in talking about the influence of Arabic rule on the Spanish language is not as I thought following 800 years of ruling the Iberian peninsula. It would be interesting to watch his talk about the same influence on the Portuguese language if that is available.
No he didn't. I am Omani and he pronounced Al Batinah as Al Bateenah.
Its pronounced Al Batnah )الباطنة(
Mussandam he used a heavy S instead of a light one
Its مسندم
Not مصندم
Not Hajar, its Hajr حجر
Not Yarubi its Yaarubi يعربي
Halwa was written wrong in Arabic. Its not حلاوة its حلوى
Yeah but the “ al batinah” that was way off.
@@osamael-beshir8538 I had the same positive experience when Paul spoke about European/Brazilian Portuguese and Brazil's geography as well. Every word he said was consonant with our standard phonetics. There are differences between countries, but people from Brazil, Portugal and Angola can understand each other if they all agree on talking slowly, for example.
The very same phenomenon happens between Arabic-speaking countries. Sometimes people don't get the idea that they don't live in a bubble and therefore their way of pronunciating something is neither better nor worse compared to other native speakers. I see that happening between Argelians, Egyptians and Jordanians, they sometimes think they're better than the others among themselves. Well, as same as anywhere else.
Cheers!
Omani here, borderline criminal not mentioning Chips Oman; the pinnacle of all cuisine known to man. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. Otherwise, really good profile.
I plead ignorance, and beg the forgiveness of the court!
Great video. Something to add: in the Dhofar region, there are several native, unwritten languages that are Semitic, but only very distantly related to Arabic. These are Mehri, Jibbali, Harsusi, Bathari, and Hobyot. The last three are endangered.
I am from Oman. Trekking\hiking is a popular hobby during cooler months and if you like fragrances there is an Omani perfume house called Amouage inspired by local ingredients such as frankincense!
I went to Oman in 2001. At the time it wasn't a tourist destination at all, but there were some expats from the region who started to visit it. I had been attracted to Oman through books anyway, it in fact started to attract some globe trotters who didn't dare Yemen any longer (which had been a bit popular in the 80s but was starting to be deemed too dangerous). I had to get an interview at the Oman embassy where I lived so that I would get the tourist visa; the man interviewing me didn't seem to understand why a female solo tourist wanted to go there. I was in fact on my way to Iran, in this trip. I have very fond memories of Oman, it is the Arabia you dream about. The landscape is absolutely gorgeous, the country is modern yet traditional at the same time, the people are gracious, it is all very exotic yet safe. I loved everything: the architecture, the local arts and handicrafts, the food (it was quite hard to find the real stuff but I was sent to Bin Atique where you eat sitting on the floor the traditional way), it is all mesmerizing and thankfully not overly touristy. I recommend that destination to anyone who likes beauty and genuine destinations.
As I am an Omani girl, thank you for your kindness and beautiful words about my country. Hope to see you again here 🌸🌸
@@lola-ye5cq Thank you for taking the time to answer my comment. I hope to go back some time soon, indeed! I wish you all the very best. 💕
@@lola-ye5cq I am too
Bellassie...Met an architect in NYC from Oman, he was one of the most gracious and funny people I ever met. He invited me to go to Oman but I was too intimidated, it was in 1996.Limited knowledge and different situation at the time. He left NYC in 2003, heart broken that Islamophobia was biting this gentle, handsome man.
I admit I knew next to nothing about Oman and this video is an excellent introduction to the country. Thank you, Paul.
I remember I did a geography project in middle school and I chose Oman as the subject country because it was relatively obscure.
nice lol what did you write about Chris?
I’m living here, it’s really hard telling foreigners I’m from Oman and them being like “what?” (Online, of course.)
Our neighbours Oman 🇴🇲🇸🇦💜💜
I lived and worked in Oman in 2012 and loved the experience. The people were warm and welcoming and seemed happy and relaxed. I got to travel around Oman with work and the scenery can be breathtaking. It was hitting 50c when I arrived and Aircon is considered life support lol
Nice! I met someone randomly out in public a couple of years ago and we ended up having this little interesting conversation about our jobs. As Western European citizen, he ended up sharing he was working as a project manager in Oman, helping to build those artificial resort islands, like they're doing in Dubai. Sharing that he worked in shifts of 2-3 months, and then, would be home again for a couple of weeks to spend time with family. Family visited him too, in his nice, luxurious and 5 star apartment. The complex had a swimming pool, spa and everything was cared for. He was living the good life.
Hey bro can you give me a way to cantact you? I am planning to move to Oman soon and I need some informations from an imigrate prospective
Hi I’m from Oman and your pronunciation was perfect and one of the best places in oman is ras alhad (راس الحد).And I appreciate that you mentioned Oman.
Hi Paul! What I knew about Oman before I watched this video: All of it and a lot more, because I've lived there when I was a child. My father was an expat who worked for PDO there from 1980 to 1984. And now, 40 years later, it's still a special place to us. We've visited all the places you show in the video. P.s.: Sultan Qaboos died in January 2020, the current ruler is Sultan Haitham. Great video 🇴🇲🌞
I am From Oman and i think this video has really good information about the country. Thanks a lot you covered everything in 10 mins thanks 🙏🏽 . You should mention the new Oman and Old Oman the new Sultan also
At Musandum peninsula up in the mountain , my guide showed me rock painting , shows people lived there many thousands years ago .
In a clear day across from Strait of Hormuz , on a clear day one can see Iranian coast lines .
Fantastic presentation. As an Omani, I wished that you'd touch on the living, historical accomplishments like forts and Falajes, and maybe mention the cities of Nizwa and Mutrah for their unique traditional markets.
I have stayed in Oman. The Natives are the nicest and friendliest people. They are very patient and polite with expats and tourist. I Iove Oman.
As an Omani I must say you did an excellent job. Perhaps something you could have mentioned is that Oman is known throughout the Middle East for its hospitality. Thank you for the video 😊
I knew that Oman is more liberal when it comes to women's rights than certain other Arab countries.
I learned about the Zanzibar connection. I didn't know about that previously.
Fascinating video as always! I was surprised to learn that expats make up such a high percentage of the population, and especially that many Omanis speak Swahili!
Not many actually, mostly older people that came or had parents coming from zanzibar previously
Not many Omanis, people that speak Swahili are mostly Omanis of African descent
As a Saudi American, I must say you did a great job pronouncing Arabic. By the way, we really respect Oman as a neighbor for us.
When you say Saudi American do you mean you are half American or born in America?
@@AliFareedMC I live in USA, grew up there, but family is from KSA.
I miss Oman so much. Thank you for unforgettable 6 years of memories.
I’m from Oman. Pretty impressed by the accuracy of the information from someone who i am assuming never lived in it!
As someone who loaves classical music i find it interesting that the late sultan of Oman Qabus was also a great lover of classical music and was responsible for building an opera house and concert hall in Muscat where not only operas,ballets and orchestral music from the west is played but also Arab music as well.Quite unusual for the Middle east!
Art is what connects us all as humans.
I was about to mention the Opera house... thank you
I had no idea it had such diversity of geographic regions. Also never knew it controlled Zanzibar or that Swahili is spoken there. Very informative.
Here for more info on how that happened.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omani_Empire
أولا سلام عمان 🇴🇲من الجزائر 🇩🇿
I know a lot about Uman and I wished you had a civilization focus channel so you focused on Majan culture cause I like your presentation.
I am Omani . Thank you for this great video. Your pronunciation is great especially when you pronounced the name of the cities. You summed up everything very well.
Have lived in Oamn for over 20 years , it is the best country in the Middle east :)
Thank you very much for the video and Welcome to Oman. You are very good at pronouncing the Arabic names of our cities.
Mad respect for nailing the Arabic pronunciations
Fascinating !!! Oman was mostly a mystery to me before this video, thanks
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it!
A video is not enough. Come visit you'll like it guaranteed
@@lxWiNNeRxl I know you're right!
Another fascinating video, Paul. We visited Muscat a few years ago and loved it, such a counterpoint to Dubai. Highly recommended. And I flew over it many times en route from Dubai to work in Somalia. I’d love to go back and visit Musandam and, even more, Salalah that I flew over so many times. The idea of fog in the Arab world fascinates!
I can't stop thinking about O-man and Yeah-Man when I heard those countries..
i have been living in Oman for last 23 years. The most safest country in the world. Amazing culture and people.
Enhorabuena nuevamente por otro gran vídeo 👍
Great video!
Good old oman! Such great place
I wish I was omani
Good old Oman, the Switzerland of the Middle East. Its also one of the two Arab nations with a historical background of a statehood, the other one being Morocco.
i would not call any country outside the arabian peninsula arab.
@@zombieat but they are actually arab they assimilated over a millenia and now they are all arabs look at the population of Arabs and where they are. Btw i am a half Palestinian half syrian arab.
@@zombieat but we do. It depends how far you go in history to draw the line. If you go far enough then Yemen will probably qualify. Today the arabic identifier gene exists almost equally within the Arab world. In fact Tunisia have the highest at 22.3% , probably due to the pre islamic migration of the Bani Hilal.
@@abumalik97 arab identifier as in j1? in africa j1 is only predominant in sudan. the rest of north africa is predominantly e-m215 which is not arab.
I am not an expert in the subject but most literatures will disagree with your statement. Ready this as an example , but there are many others. Calls for differentiating amongest the Arab world tend to be politically motivated , not scientific.
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0192269
Great info!
This an amazing report, very accurate and informative
This is wonderful. Better than Geography Now.
That was very informative, thank you.
This video was amazing in many different ways. Really impressed good job to you sir
I was there in April as a tourist, and just loved it!
Just visited this wonderful country. Highly recommend, great food, wonderful people!
O man that's a lot of information. Well done!
Nice french accent and now nice arab accent ! You’re doing great
I learned a lot thnx
I love this video thanks for making it
It’s my pleasure!
Gud vid as always!
Amazing video thanks enormously this video also cover all the regions like nizwa the old cultural capital of oman .however you did un Amazing video and pronounced arabic words perfectly
I love Oman. I've been there only for some time, and I find the people very nice and welcoming.
Make such a beautiful and informative video for other countries ❤❤
Amazing .....as an Omani, i was impressed with the amount of the accurate information you provided
I'm from Oman, and thanks alot for making this amazing Video, which contain alot of true information, I highlly recomend you to visut Oman to learn more about it, Thank you again fot this Video!! :)
Oman that was another great video!
Ohh man , I was waiting for this! Lol
I'm very impressed by how accurate this video is.
Thanks for presentation ☺️ 👏 mashalha Go ahead
Great pronunciations!
Well researched and masterfully implemented. Oman welcomes you anytime brother
The only things I knew about Oman before this were the flag and its geographical location. Learned a lot, thanks!
I knew about the snowboarding on sand dunes, but not the Khaleef and the fact Oman has a more wet, green and lush area in the South West of the country.
Oh man this one was good!
Oh man didn't realize it had those exclaves and used to control Zanzibar for a while
oh man, a video about Oman!
Would be an interesting profile on Lichtenstein, another county that rarely gets mentioned, and a lot of Europeans don’t even know it exists
I made a video about Lichtenstein back in 2015. It massively sucks, of course. But hey, you have to start somewhere!
I thought it was "Lie" Liechtenstein
@@The_SOB_II Yes, it is.
I would be surprised if Europeans don't know about it - I've been there twice and it's nowhere as diverse and interesting as Oman. Like I went to the receptionist of a hotel and went "look, I'm finished with my appointments in Vaduz, I still have 2 hours until my train leaves. can you recommend anything to do in 2h?" and she replied "well, in 2h you can see the whole country!"
Oman...
I was always fascinated by its history, its ability to overcome Portuguese colonialism kinda early.
The most surprising thing about Oman I knew, was that it owned a city within Pakistan until the 1960s.
A whole day with temperatures above 42°C, even at night, I wonder what the dew point was. If the moisture had been high that day too, it's really something you don't want to experience.
Thanks for the video 🖐👴
Have a nice day too, wherever you are😉
It is a coastal city .. sooo yes it will be high
my favorite country 🇩🇿🇴🇲
ppl of ghardaia in algeria are like exactly the same as omani ppl
they remind me of them each time i see them
I think itd be cool if u could make one about Nepal if u havent alredy
wow I didnt know that Oman has greens! thanks for the information
❤️Like ur channel bro,
their dates are fire
I knew Oman was part of the Arab world. what I knew about the country was really very general. I learned a lot from this video.
There's sooo much that you missed bro, but overall for someone who hasnt talked to an Omani this video was dope, talk to me when youre free and you'll be mesmerized by the info ill give you
*I'm fascinated with Oman. I love everything about this country, especially the currency. Omani Rial is on my top list of the most beautiful currencies in the world. :)*
As a new Omani resident, I can tell that you missed highlighting (although between the lines mentioned) the qualities of Omani people specially when it comes to hospitality, kindness with others, tolerance of different inclinations, and above all respect which does not -in general- differentiate between people based on nationality or origin.
But overall, you did a great job.
I lived in Oman for 19 years. Kudos on the Pronunciation. Something to add: Salalah Eco System, Religious Diversity, Access to UAE and Yemen. Also, you missed information about the current Sultan Haitham Bin Tawriq. He was the ex-minister for Cultural Affairs during the Sultan Qaboos Administration.
Ps. Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Busaidy was revered as the defacto peacemaker among the Arab countries.
Love the video.
good script, rendered well by Langfocus man!. but do add some stuff on coastal trade through daos. the used to come all the way to India.
Bird and whale watching is definitely _not_ something I would have pictured when thinking of a country in the Middle East. It's nice to hear about a country that actually takes steps to protect its wildlife. Seems like most of the time when I learn about these small obscure countries (obscure to westerners, anyway), they're in the process of decimating their own environment.
Living and working in Oman since 2007. Love it 😊. Oman forever.
Great! What industry are you in?
Education. Working with the new generations!. By the way....love your channel and I' very been following since long time...all thise languages rich knowledge. Thank you!
@@annaelsayed3063 Thanks! I'm glad you like this channel too (not just Langfocus). :)
Very interesting and informative. Thank you. Where do you go or turn to to find out how to get your pronunciations correct?
Thanks! I often use forvo.com for audio and Wiktionary for IPA transcriptions.
I am from Oman, Thank you for your effort, And do not forget to visit Oman as soon as possible.
I'm Omani and I just want to say that the hottest temperature is not 42 infant in muscat which isn't the hottest part of Oman can hit over 48°C for more then 12 hrs and usually when it's dry and hot during the night time it's a sign that it can get up to 50° or 52°C in the afternoon the next day. it can get upto 60°C in some parts of sharqiya though I've never been to those parts.
60 degrees is higher than the world record (which is 58 degrees), if you’re talking about temperatures in the shade (which is the usual way it’s measured in weather forecasts). Of course it might get hotter than that in some places, but it has never been recorded.
The figure of 42.6 degrees in the video was for a record minimum temperature (ie. at night or in the early morning). During the day it would have been much hotter.
@@GEOfocusChannel we got up to 60°c in the summer of 2021 however I'm not sure about the location of that temperature all I know it it was documented in Sharqiya. And whether it was in the shade or not is something else I'm not sure of it might have been recorded buy someone car or thermometer or have beeb recorded the normal way. I'm not the right person to ask seeing that I don't live in that governorate however I do know that in muscat it regularly goes above 50°C during the summer with a long sustained of over 46°c and 48°c at night however these temperature don't last very long and they usually dissipate in a day or two when it starts getting humid. The temperature kinda slides between extremely dry and hot to extremely humid and hot during the summer. I will try to look for the 60° report though and give it to you if I can find it.
Brilliant!
I had a pen pal there in the 70's.
Interesting country.
Did you do Mauritania?
No, I haven't done Mauritania yet. But I'll likely do it at some point. I'm quite interested in the Arab World.
@@GEOfocusChannel Excellent! Me too.
Do you know what happened to him?
Paul: It's the only country that begins with the letter "O"
Austrians: was ist mit Österreich passiert!?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
In English, of course 😄
Btw forgot to say, it was an Omani that created the number 0 and put dots on the arabic letters
I would love to visit Oman someday 💕
You most welcome ma’am 🇴🇲
On a flat map finland seems much bigger than Oman but on a Round map that actually has plate teuctonics and other important things you can actually see the size of Oman and its as big as Finland with roughly the same population.
I live in the UAE so let me tell you we are similar in many ways, it's the only country I have ever traveled to as I did many times by car, compared to other Arab countries oman is the best in terms of nature.
Can you do…..Suriname eventually? :)
very interesting! missing: overview of the South-Arabian speaking tribes and their culture and uniqueness in the south: the Mehri and Sheri
do Mongolia or any other central Asian country next, i find central Asia so interesting and underrated
It can’t be next, man. We have a production process and schedule, and there are a bunch of videos already made and awaiting release. :) But we have a Mongolia script in progress.
@@GEOfocusChannel nice
damn as an omani this is damn accurate. good job
Honestly, I only knew about the Ophiolite in the northeast and the weird exclave it had with the UAE. Godspeed Oman!
Your arabic pronunciations is very impressive
Greetings from Yemen to our neighbors
🇾🇪❤️ 🇴🇲
I honestly didn't know much at all about Oman, so this was really interesting. I learned that Oman has the record for the highest minimum temperature in a 24-hour period at 42.6 C. Of course, being American, I only understand the one true temperature scale - glorious Fahrenheit. So how hot that is is impossible for me to say.
Very hot. As an Omani who lived his whole life in Oman I still get shocked every year with how hot it gets.
@@lxWiNNeRxl most Omani live in hot weather normally and environmental 🍀
almost 110 F
Great pronunciation of Arabic terms
I am from Oman there is small mistakes put overall you did very well
If that counts as independent I'm kind of curious what people say about Egypt considering the country's position relating to the Ottomans.
Sultan qaboos was a legend! RIP
I'm from Oman, nice job.
Now i understand how butchering words that you grown up with is painful