Mehri

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Mehri is a Modern South Arabian language spoken primarily by the Mehri people in eastern Yemen and western Oman, known for preserving many archaic Semitic features.

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Mehri canonical 3

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Modern South Arabian language
Semitic language
language
closelyRelatedTo Bathari
Harsusi
Hobyot
Jibbali
Soqotri language
surface form: Soqotri
ethnicGroup Mehri people
hasArchaicFeatures Semitic morphology
Semitic phonology
Semitic syntax
hasDialects Omani Mehri
Yemeni Mehri
hasGlottocode mehr1241
hasISO639-3Code gdq
hasLanguageBranch Semitic
hasLanguageFamily Afroasiatic languages
surface form: Afroasiatic
hasLanguageSubbranch Modern South Arabian languages
surface form: Modern South Arabian
hasLinguasphereCode 12-AAC-aa
hasMorphologyType nonconcatenative
root-and-pattern
hasNotableResearcher Aaron D. Rubin
Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle
T. M. Johnstone
hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate 100000
hasPhonemeInventory emphatic consonants
lateral fricatives
pharyngeal consonants
hasPrimaryReligionOfSpeakers Islam
hasWordOrder SVO
VSO
hasWritingSystem Arabic alphabet
surface form: Arabic script

Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isEndangered true
isMinorityLanguageIn Oman
Yemen
isThreatenedBy Arabic
spokenIn Oman
Yemen
Eastern Yemen region
surface form: eastern Yemen

western Oman
subclassOf Afroasiatic language
South Semitic language
usedIn oral poetry
traditional storytelling

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