Mehri language
Modern South Arabian language, spoken along the coasts of the Guardafui Channel
Mehri, or Mahri, is a Semitic language. It is spoken by tribes in Eastern Yemen and Western Oman by around 165,000 people. It has been spoken in the area since before Arabic was brought there.[2]
| Mehri | |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | [mɛhri] |
| Native to | Yemen, Oman |
| Ethnicity | Mehri people |
Native speakers | 165,900 (2011-2015)[1] |
| Arabic alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gdq |
| Glottolog | mehr1241 |
| ELP | Mehri |
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References change
- ↑ Mehri at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
- ↑ Abu Muhammad al-Hasan Hamdani, Sifat Jazirat al-'Arab (probably ed. 1884), 134 tr. Chaim Rabin (1951). Ancient West-Arabian. London: Taylor's Foreign Press. p. 43.
