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Bathari

Bathari is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Yemen and Oman. Glottolog rates it moribund.

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Bathari · 17.9°N 55.6°E

Baṭḥari (Arabic: اللغة البطحرية "Baṭḥari language"), natively known as Bəṭaḥrēt, is a nearly extinct Afro-Asiatic language of Oman, located on the southeast coast facing the Khuriya Muriya Islands.

The first westerner to acknowledge the existence of Bathari was Bertram Thomas in 1929.

From Wikipedia · Baṭḥari language · CC BY-SA 4.0

Words in Bathari

MeaningWordRomanization
nameXam*
eyeXayn*
ear7i8En*
nosenaxrir*
handXad*
blood8Er*
breast8ad3h*
watermuh
fireL3yat*
mountaink3rmam*
nightlel*
dogk3lb*
fishsayd*
lousekafl*
onetad*
two8rEh*
Ihoh*
youhet*
we3nXa*
drinkLxaf*
seeabsar*
diemEt*
comenokaX*
pathXar3m*
fullmEli*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

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