Arabic, Ta’izzi-Adeni Spoken

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Alternate Names: Southern Yemeni Spoken Arabic

Dialects: Adeni, Ta’izzi. Ta’izzi dialect best accepted in Yemen. A member of macrolanguage Arabic ,.

Status Notes: De facto language of provincial identity in South Yemen.

Genealogy:

Afro-Asiatic
Semitic
Central
South
Arabic

Demographics: 6,760,000 in Yemen (1996). Population total all countries: 7,078,500.

Language Use: Also use Standard Arabic [arb].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L2: 10%.

Nation of Origin: Yemen

Other Comments: Different from Hadrami , and Sanaani Arabic ,. Muslim (Zaydi).