Hadrami Arabic
اللهجة الحضرمية
Hadrami Arabic is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, by about 4.5 million people.
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Hadhrami Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة الحضرمية, romanized: al-Lahjah al-Ḥaḍramiyah) is a variety of Arabic spoken by the Hadharem living in the region of Hadhramaut in southeastern Yemen. It is also spoken by many emigrants, who migrated from Hadhramaut to the Horn of Africa (Somalia and Eritrea), East Africa (Comoros, Zanzibar, Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique), Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore) and, recently, to the other Arab states of the Persian Gulf.
Hadhrami Arabic is also the main element language that forms a local variety of Arabic in Indonesia. This variety was eventually referred to as Indonesian Arabic, where most of the vocabulary and grammar are absorbed from here.
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Words in Hadrami Arabic
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | nafar* | |
| name | isim* | |
| eye | Xen* | |
| ear | idin* | |
| nose | nukrah* | |
| tooth | daris* | |
| tongue | lsan* | |
| hand | yadd* | |
| blood | damm* | |
| bone | Xadim* | |
| skin | dim* | |
| knee | rukbah* | |
| breast | ded* | |
| liver | kbid* | |
| water | ma* | |
| fire | nar* | |
| sun | Samis* | |
| star | niTim* | |
| stone | hasah* | |
| mountain | Tabal* | |
| tree | SiTrah* | |
| leaf | wargah* | |
| night | lel* | |
| dog | kalib* | |
| fish | samak* | |
| louse | gamlih* | |
| one | wahid* | |
| two | itnen* | |
| I | ana* | |
| you | intih* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
- Ta'izzi-Adeni ArabicAfro-Asiatic61% alike
- Saidi ArabicAfro-Asiatic60% alike
- Dhofari ArabicAfro-Asiatic58% alike
- Omani ArabicAfro-Asiatic58% alike
- Gulf ArabicAfro-Asiatic58% alike
- Najdi ArabicAfro-Asiatic56% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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