Tihami Arabic
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Tihami Arabic is a regional variety of Arabic spoken along Yemen’s Red Sea coastal plain, distinguished by its unique phonological and lexical features within the broader Yemeni Arabic continuum.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arabic dialect
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spoken language → variety of Yemeni Arabic → |
| country |
Yemen
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| differsFrom |
highland Yemeni Arabic in lexicon
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highland Yemeni Arabic in phonology → |
| geographicDistribution |
Red Sea coastal lowlands of Yemen
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| hasAlternativeName |
Tihami Yemeni Arabic
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| hasAncestor |
Classical Arabic
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Old Arabic → |
| hasFeature |
mutually intelligible to varying degrees with other Yemeni Arabic dialects
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regional identity marker for inhabitants of the Tihama plain → shows influence of coastal trade contacts in vocabulary → |
| hasLexicalFeature |
lexical items not shared with other Yemeni varieties
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loanwords from neighboring Red Sea contact languages → |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
distinctive consonant realizations compared to other Yemeni dialects
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vowel patterns differing from highland Yemeni Arabic → |
| hasSociolinguisticStatus |
primarily a spoken vernacular
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used in everyday communication in the Tihama region → |
| hasTypologicalFeature |
shares features with other coastal Arabian dialects
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| hasWritingSystem |
Arabic script
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| isDialectOf |
Arabic
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Yemeni Arabic → |
| isSubjectOf |
studies in Arabic dialectology
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| languageFamily |
Afroasiatic languages
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Arabic language → Central Semitic languages → Semitic languages → |
| neighboringDialect |
San‘ani Arabic
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Ta‘izzi-Adeni Arabic → |
| partOf |
Yemeni Arabic dialect continuum
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| region |
Tihama coastal plain
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| spokenIn |
Yemen’s Red Sea coastal plain
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western Yemen → |
| subclassOf |
Arabic
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Peninsular Arabic → Semitic language variety → Yemeni Arabic → |
| usedBy |
communities along Yemen’s Red Sea coast
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Referenced by (4)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Tihami Arabic
("Tihami Yemeni Arabic")
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hasAlternativeName |
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Yemeni Arabic
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hasDialects |
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Razihi Arabic
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hasNeighboringVariety |
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Faifi Arabic
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relatedTo |