Yemen Languages
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Description
The official language of Yemen is the Modern Standard Arabic [1] [2]
Most people in Yemen speak Yemeni Arabic [3]
Other languages spoken are:
- Mehri [4] - largest South Semitic language spoken in Yemen
- Soqotri [5] - another South Semitic language
- English - most important foreign langugage
- Russian - significant number of people in Yemen
Word List(s)
- useful phrases in Modern Standard Arabic - Omniglot
- Modern Standard Arabic vocabulary - ModernStandardArabic.com
Alphabet and Pronunciation
Alphabet
- Modern Standard Arabic alphabet - Omniglot
- Old Yemeni alphabet - Omniglot
Pronunciation
Language Aids and Dictionaries
Dictionaries
- Piamenta, M. A dictionary of post-classical Yemeni Arabic. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990. Available at: WorldCat.
- Qafisheh, Hamdi A. NTC's Yemeni Arabic-English dictionary. Lincolnwood, Ill: NTC, 2000. Available at: WorldCat.
Online Dictionaries
- Dictionary English - Arabic - Glosbe
Language Aids
- Ryding, Karin C. A reference grammar of modern standard Arabic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Available at: WorldCat.
- Alhawary, Mohammad T. Modern Standard Arabic grammar : a learner's guide. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Available at: WorldCat.
- Qafisheh, Hamdi A. Yemeni Arabic reference grammar. Kensington, Md: Dunwoody Press, 1992. Available at: WorldCat.
Additional Resources
- Risha, Sarah. Arabic for beginners : a guide to modern standard Arabic. Clarendon: Tuttle Publishing, 2021. Available at: WorldCat.
- Ramadan, Abdulkareem Said. Conjunctions and interjections in modern standard Arabic. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019. Available at: WorldCat.
- Huizinga, Marijke. Spoken Yemeni Arabic. Uitgeverij, Amsterdam: UV Boekhandel, 1984. Available at: WorldCat.
References
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Modern Standard Arabic," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Standard_Arabic, accessed 5 May 2023.
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Yemen," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen#:~:text=official%20language, accessed 5 May 2023.
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Yemeni Arabic," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_Arabic, accessed 5 May 2023.
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Mehri language," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehri_language, accessed 5 May 2023.
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Soqotri language," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soqotri_language, accessed 5 May 2023.