Bathari language

E339264

The Bathari language is a critically endangered Modern South Arabian language spoken by a small community in coastal Oman.

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Label Occurrences
Bathari language canonical 9

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Modern South Arabian language
critically endangered language
natural language
country Oman
documentationStatus poorly documented
dominantContactLanguage Arabic
endangermentStatus critically endangered
ethnicGroup Bathari people
hasAlternativeName Batahari
Bathari
Batʿhari
hasDomain oral tradition
hasLinguisticFeature emphatic consonants
non-concatenative morphology
triconsonantal roots
hasMorphologicalType fusional
templatic
hasPhonologicalFeature pharyngeal consonants
rich consonant inventory
uvular consonants
isMinorityLanguageIn Oman
ISO639-3Code bhm
languageFamily Afroasiatic
Modern South Arabian languages
surface form: Modern South Arabian

Semitic
South Semitic languages
surface form: South Semitic
numberOfSpeakers very few
primaryWordOrder VSO
region Dhofar
surface form: Dhofar Governorate
relatedTo Harsusi language
Hobyot language
Mehri language
Shehri language
Soqotri language
spokenIn Omani coast
surface form: Al Mahrah–Dhofar coastal region

Oman
coastal Oman
status critically endangered
subclassOf Modern South Arabian language
Semitic language
South Semitic language
threatenedBy language shift to Arabic
transmission not transmitted to most children
UNESCOStatus critically endangered
usedBy Bathari tribe
vitalityTrend declining
writingSystem Arabic script

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Modern South Arabian languages hasPart Bathari language
Soqotri language closelyRelatedTo Bathari language
Mehri language closelyRelatedTo Bathari language
Harsusi language lexicalSimilarityWith Bathari language
Hobyot language relatedTo Bathari language
Shehri language relatedTo Bathari language
MSA languages hasMember Bathari language
Harsusi isRelatedTo Bathari language
Hobyot isRelatedTo Bathari language