Mehri language

Mehri
Mehri
Pronunciation	[mɛhri]
Native to	Yemen, Oman
Ethnicity	Mehri people
Native speakers	165,900 (2011-2015)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic South Semitic Modern South Arabian Mehri; ; ; ;
Writing system	Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gdq
Glottolog	mehr1241
ELP	Mehri

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]

References

↑ 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.

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[e19-1] Mehri at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)

[2] 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.

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