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Judeo-yemeni Arabic Information

Judeo-Yemeni Arabic (also known as Judeo-Yemeni, Yemenite Judeo-Arabic) is a variety of Arabic spoken by Jews living or formerly living in Yemen. 50,000 speakers now live in Israel, 1,000 remain in Yemen.[1] The language is quite different from mainstream Yemeni Arabic.[1] The language may be split into the subdialects of San`a, `Aden, Be:da, and Habban.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c "Ethnologue report for language code: jye". Ethnologue.com. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=jye. Retrieved 2011-05-22.
  2. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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