Mehri language
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Name (Hebrew)
שפת מהרי
Name (Latin)
Mehri language
Name (Arabic)
اللغة المهرية
Other forms of name
Mahra language
nne Mahri language
Mehre language
See Also From tracing topical name
South Arabian languages
See Also From tracing place name
Arabian Peninsula
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q13361
Library of congress:
sh 85079861
Sources of Information
- Stroomer, H. Mehri texts from Oman, 1999.
- Ethnologue, Apr. 1, 2021(Mehri; a language of Yemen; also spoken in Kuwait, Oman, and Saudi Arabia; alternate name: Mahri; classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, South, South Arabian; spoken by the Mahra)
- p. 378 (In the South of the Arabian Peninsula, in the Republic of the Yemen and in the Sultanate of Oman, live some 200,000 Arabs whose maternal language is not Arabic but one of the so-called Modern South Arabian Languages (MSAL); the MSAL are different enough from Arabic to make intercomprehension impossible between speakers of any of the MSAL and Arabic speakers; There are six MSAL: Mehri, Harsūsi, Baṭḥari, Hobyōt, Jibbāli, Soqoṭri; As regards the number of speakers and the geographical extension, Mehri is the main language. It is spoken by the Mahra tribes (about 100,000 speakers) and some Beyt Kathir, in the mountains of Dhofar in Oman, and in the Yemen ( (Simeone-Sinelle, M.-C. The Modern South Arabian languages, 1997, via WWW, Apr. 1, 2021:) )