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  4. Hadhrami Arabic
ISO 639-3 · ayhayh
Afroasiatic family

Hadhrami Arabic

اللهجة الحضرمية

Hadhrami Arabic is a language of the Semitic branch (Afroasiatic), spoken in Yemen, Tanzania, Indonesia and Malaysia and 4 more countries. Wikidata counts about 4.5 m speakers. Wikidata describes it as “variety of the Arabic language”.

6a · VigorousArab+34.5 m
At a glance
ISO 639-3
ayh
Glottocode
hadr1236
Wikipedia
14 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
8countries
1scripts
2levels in the tree
6aEGIDS level

Facts

NameHadhrami Arabic · اللهجة الحضرمية
Also calledHadrami Arabic
All speakers4,473,000
Written inArabic script

Vitality

EGIDS 6a Vigorous6a

Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.

Other languages at this level
family tree

From Afroasiatic to Hadhrami Arabic

The branches above Hadhrami Arabic, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.

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