Judeo-Yemenite

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Judeo-Yemeni Arabic
Spoken in Israel, Yemen
Total speakers 51,000
Language family Afro-Asiatic
Writing system Hebrew alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1 None
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3 jye

Judeo-Yemeni Arabic (also known as Judeo-Yemeni, Yemenite Judeo-Arabic) is a variety of Arabic spoken by Jews living or formerly living in Yemen. 98% of all speakers now live in Israel. The language is quite different from the non-Jewish Arabic spoken in Yemen. The language may be split into the subdialects of San`a, `Aden, Be:da, and Habban.[1]

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  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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