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Yemeni Arabic (Arabic: لهجة يمنية, romanized: Lahja Yamaniyyah) is a cluster of varieties of Arabic spoken in Yemen. [2] It is generally considered a very conservative dialect cluster, having many classical features not found across most of the Arabic-speaking world.
Arabic: Yemeni Arabic (majority) · Standard Arabic · Judeo-Yemeni (historically) Non-Arabic: Hungarian · Turkish · Somali: Religion; Predominantly Islam · Significant minorities of Christianity (Roman Catholic · Hungarian Calvinist) and Judaism: Related ethnic groups; Other Arabs
Modern Standard Arabic is the official language, while Yemeni Arabic is used as the vernacular. In al Mahrah Governorate in the far east and the island of Socotra, several non-Arabic languages are spoken. [319] [320] Yemeni Sign Language is used by the deaf community. Yemen is part of the homeland of the South Semitic languages.
Judeo-Yemeni Arabic (also known as Judeo-Yemeni and Yemenite Judeo-Arabic) is a variety of Arabic spoken by Jews living or formerly living in Yemen.The language is quite different from mainstream Yemeni Arabic, [citation needed] and is written in the Hebrew alphabet.
The Yemen Arab Republic (YAR; Arabic: الجمهورية العربية اليمنية al-Jumhūriyyah al-‘arabiyyah al-Yamaniyyah, French: République arabe du Yémen), commonly known as North Yemen or Yemen (Sanaʽa), was a country that existed from 1962 to 1990 in the northwestern part of what is now Yemen. [4] Its capital was at Sanaa.
Qahtanite (/ ˈ k ɑː t ə n aɪ t /; Arabic: قَحْطَانِي, romanized: Qaḥṭānī) refers to Arabs who originate from modern-day Yemen. [1] [2] The term "Qahtan" is mentioned in multiple ancient Arabian inscriptions found in Yemen. Arab traditions believe that they are the original Arabs. [3] [4] [5] [6]
The Yemeni diaspora is largely concentrated in the United Kingdom, where between 70,000 and 80,000 Yemenis live. Over 20,000 Yemenis reside in the United States, and an additional 2,812 live in Italy. Other Yemenis also reside in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain, as well as Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, and the former ...
Temani Jews in Jerusalem. Yemenite Jews, also known as Yemeni Jews or Teimanim (from Hebrew: יהודי תימן, romanized: Yehudei Teman; Arabic: اليهود اليمنيون), are Jews who live, or once lived, in Yemen, and their descendants maintaining their customs.