Judeo-Yemenite
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| colspan="3" style="text-align: center; font-size:120%; color: black; background-color: Template:Infobox Language/family-color;" |Judeo-Yemenite | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Yemen, Israel | |
| Total speakers: | — | |
| Language family: | Template:Infobox Language/genetic2 Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic South-Central Semitic Arabic Judeo-Yemenite | |
| Writing system: | Arabic alphabet | |
| colspan="3" style="text-align: center; color: black; background-color: Template:Infobox Language/family-color;"|Official status | ||
| Official language in: | none | |
| Regulated by: | none | |
| colspan="3" style="text-align: center; color: black; background-color: Template:Infobox Language/family-color;" |Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | — | |
| ISO 639-3: | jye | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Judeo-Yemenite language is the form of Judeo-Arabic spoken by Yemenite Jews. The language is now spoken by some 51,000 Jews, all but 1,000 of whom live in Israel, with the remaining thousand still living in Yemen. The language is quite different from the non-Jewish Arabic spoken in Yemen. The language may be split into the subdialects of San`a, `Aden, Be:da, and Habban. It is written, like most Jewish languages, with the Hebrew script.
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