Harsusi

E347905

Harsusi is a critically endangered South Semitic language spoken by a small community in the Dhofar region of Oman.

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Harsusi canonical 5

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Modern South Arabian language
South Semitic language
language
country Oman
domainOfUse home and community communication
endangermentStatus critically endangered
ethnicGroup Harsusi people
surface form: Harasis people
hasAlternativeName Harsusi language
Hersyet
hasContactLanguage Arabic
hasEndangermentFactor dominance of Arabic in education
lack of intergenerational transmission
urban migration of speakers
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
hasLinguisticAncestor Proto-Semitic language
Proto-South Semitic language
hasMorphologicalFeature broken plurals
gendered nouns
root-and-pattern morphology
triconsonantal roots
verbal aspect distinctions
hasPhonologicalFeature emphatic consonants
pharyngeal consonants
uvular consonants
hasSyntacticFeature subject–verb–object word order
verb–subject–object word order
hasTypologicalFeature relatively small vowel inventory
rich consonant inventory
isCloselyRelatedTo Hobyot language
Mehri language
isDocumentedBy field linguists
isEndangeredDueTo language shift to Arabic
ISO639-3Code hss
isRelatedTo Bathari language
Shehri language
Soqotri language
isStudiedIn Semitic linguistics
languageBranch Semitic languages
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
numberOfSpeakersEstimate few hundred speakers
region Dhofar
surface form: Dhofar region
script Arabic script
spokenIn Dhofar
surface form: Dhofar Governorate

Jiddat al-Harasis
Oman
status minority language in Oman
subBranch Modern South Arabian languages
South Semitic languages
usedBy pastoralist communities

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