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Hadhrami Arabic

Hadhrami Arabic
اللهجة الحضرمية
Native toYemen
EthnicityHadharem
Speakers5.1 million (2020)[1]
Dialects
Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3ayh
Glottologhadr1236
Distribution of Hadhrami Arabic according to Ethnologue
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Hadhrami Arabic, or Ḥaḍrami Arabic (ḤA), is a variety of Arabic spoken by the Hadharem (Ḥaḍārem) living in the region of Hadhramaut in southeastern Yemen, with a small number of speakers found in Kenya.[1]

Hadhrami Arabic is also the main element language that forms a local variety of Arabic in Indonesia, a variety that was eventually referred to as Indonesian Arabic. Where most of the vocabulary and grammar are absorbed from here.[2]

  1. ^ a b Hadhrami Arabic at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Suroiyah, Evi Nurus; Zakiyah, Dewi Anisatuz (2021-06-07). "Perkembangan Bahasa Arab di Indonesia". Muhadasah: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Arab (in Indonesian). 3 (1): 60–69. doi:10.51339/muhad.v3i1.302. ISSN 2721-9488.

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