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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Asia > Yemen > Arabic, Hadrami Spoken

Arabic, Hadrami Spoken

A language of Yemen

ISO 639-3ayh

Population  300,000 in Yemen (1995). Population total all countries: 410,000.
Region  Hadramaut. Also in Eritrea, Kenya.
Language map  Yemen
Alternate names   Hadrami, Hadromi
Classification  Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic
A member of macrolanguage Arabic [ara] (Saudi Arabia).
Language development  Literacy rate in L2: 10%.
Comments  Distinct from Ta’izzi-Adeni Spoken Arabic [acq] and Sanaani Spoken Arabic [ayn]. Muslim.