Mehri language

Mehri
Mehri
Pronunciation	[mɛhri]
Native to	Yemen, Oman
Ethnicity	Mehri people
Native speakers	165,900 (2011-2015)e19
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic South Semitic Modern South Arabian Mehri; ; ; ;
Writing system	Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gdq

Mehri, or Mahri, is a Semitic language. It is spoken by tribes in Eastern Yemen and Western Oman by around 165,000 people. It has been spoken in the area since before Arabic was brought there.^[1]

Mehri Language Media

This language is definitely endangered. This is the status of Walloon (as of 2010).*The "children" generation no longer learn this language as first language at home. The youngest native speakers of this language are of the "parent" generation but they only speak it among themselves and to older people. They typically do not speak the language to the "children" generation.

References

↑ Abu Muhammad al-Hasan Hamdani, Sifat Jazirat al-'Arab (probably ed. 1884), 134 tr. Chaim Rabin (1951). Ancient West-Arabian. London: Taylor's Foreign Press. p. 43.

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[1] Abu Muhammad al-Hasan Hamdani, Sifat Jazirat al-'Arab (probably ed. 1884), 134 tr. Chaim Rabin (1951). Ancient West-Arabian. London: Taylor's Foreign Press. p. 43.

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