Arabic, Judeo-Yemeni
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A language of Yemen
ISO 639-3
Alternate Names
Judeo-Yemeni, Yemenite Judeo-Arabic, Yeminite
Population
300 in Yemen (2010 J. Berer). Total users in all countries: 50,300.
Location
‘Adan, Al Bayda’, Sanaa and Shabwah governorates: mainly urban communities; Shabwah governorate (Habban dialect).
Language Status
8a (Moribund).
Classification
Dialects
San’a, ’Aden, Be:da, Habban. Jewish varieties markedly different from their coterritorial Muslim counterparts. A member of macrolanguage Judeo-Arabic [jrb].
Language Resources
Writing
Hebrew script [Hebr].
Prior to the 1950s, Yemen had more than 50,000 Jews spread throughout the country, but with the creation of the State of Israel, the vast majority left. Several thousand remained until the early 1990s, until they, too, left for Israel. Now, only a few hundred remain (2010 J. Berer). Jewish.