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Jabal Razih
Razihi
Native toYemen
Language codes
ISO 639-3rzh
Glottologjaba1234
ELPRazihi

Razihi (Rāziḥī), the language of Jabal Razih in the far northwestern corner of Yemen,[1] is the only surviving descendent of the Old South Arabian languages.[2]

Classical Arabic

  • š corresponds to Razihi /ɬ/, and its emphatic correlate,
  • ḍ, to general Yemeni /ð/ in recent words, but to /tɬ/ in older words. There is nasal assimilation, as in ssān 'man', ssānah 'woman', cognate with Arabic ʾinsān 'person'; this was a feature of both Ancient North Arabian and Old South Arabian, but is not found in any Arabic dialect. Razihi also has a large number of non-Arabic basic vocabulary items, prepositions and other grammatical forms.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Watson, Glover-Stalls, Al-razihi, & Weir (2006), "The language of Jabal Rāziḥ: Arabic or something else?", Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 36:35–41
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Glottolog was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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