Mehri language

Mehri
Mehri
Pronunciation	[mɛhri]
Native to	Yemen, Oman
Ethnicity	Mehri people
Native speakers	165,900 (2011-2015)
Language family	Afroasiatic 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.

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.