TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY LARA SUKHTIAN
A general view shows the tiny village of Kumzar on the northernmost tip of Oman’s Musandam peninsula on March 14, 2012. Home to 4,000 people and overlooking the strategic Straits of Hormuz that Iran has threatened to close, Kumzar village has a thousand year-old language of its own that no one else on earth understands. AFP PHOTO/KARIM SAHIB (Photo credit should read KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images)