Judeo-Yemenite

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Judeo-Yemeni Arabic
Spoken in: Israel, Yemen
Total speakers: 51,000
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Semitic
  West Semitic
   Central Semitic
    South Central Semitic
     Arabic
      Judeo-Yemeni Arabic 
Writing system: Hebrew alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1: None
ISO 639-2: –
ISO 639-3: jye
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Judeo-Yemeni Arabic (also known as Judeo-Yemeni, Yemenite Judeo-Arabic) is a variety of Arabic spoken by Jews living or formerly living in Yemen. 98% of all speakers now live in Israel. The language is quite different from the non-Jewish Arabic spoken in Yemen. The language may be split into the subdialects of San`a, `Aden, Be:da, and Habban.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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