Arabic, Judeo-Yemeni
A language of Israel
| Population | 50,000 in Israel (1995 Y. Kara). Population total all countries: 51,000. |
| Region | Also in Yemen. |
| Alternate names | Judeo-Yemeni, Yemenite Judeo-Arabic |
| Dialects | San’a, ’Aden, Be:da, Habban. Language varieties all markedly different from their coterritorial Muslim ones. |
| Classification | Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic A member of macrolanguage Judeo-Arabic [jrb] (Israel). |
| Writing system | Hebrew script. |
| Comments | Jewish. |
Also spoken in:
Yemen
| Language name | Arabic, Judeo-Yemeni |
| Population | 1,000 in Yemen (1995 H. Mutzafi). |
| Alternate names | Judeo-Yemeni, Yemenite Judeo-Arabic |
| Dialects | San’a, ’Aden, Be:da, Habban. |
| Comments | Jewish. |
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