What is Mehri language?
{{Infobox language |name=Mehri |map = Modern South Arabian Languages.svg |pronunciation={{IPA|[mɛhri]}} |states=[[Yemen]], [[Oman]] |ethnicity=[[Mehri people]] |speakers= 165,900 |date=2011-2015 |ref=e19 |familycolor=Afro-Asiatic |fam2=[[Semitic languages|Semitic]] |fam3=[[South Semitic languages|South Semitic]] |fam4=[[Modern South Arabian languages|Modern South Arabian]] |script=[[Arabic alphabet]] |iso3=gdq |glotto=mehr1241 |glottorefname=Mehri }} '''Mehri''', or '''Mahri''', is a [[Semitic languages|Semitic language]]. It is spoken by tribes in Eastern [[Yemen]] and Western [[Oman]] by around 165,000 people. It has been spoken in the area since before [[Arabic language|Arabic]] was brought there.<ref>Abu Muhammad al-Hasan Hamdani, Sifat Jazirat al-'Arab (probably ed. 1884), 134 tr. {{cite book|title=Ancient West-Arabian |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.103575 | author=Chaim Rabin | author-link=Chaim Menachem Rabin | publisher=Taylor's Foreign Press | location=London | year=1951 |page=[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.103575/page/43 43]}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Semitic languages]] [[Category:Languages of Oman]] [[Category:Languages of Yemen]] [[Category:Kuwaiti culture]] {{asia-stub}}