Arabic, Judeo-Yemeni

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A language of Yemen

ISO 639-3
jye
Alternate Names
Judeo-Yemeni, Yemenite Judeo-Arabic, Yeminite
User Population

300 in Yemen (2010 J. Berer). Total users in all countries: 37,570.

Location

‘Adan, Al Bayda’, Sanaa and Shabwah governorates: mainly urban communities; Shabwah governorate (Habban dialect).

Language Status

8a (Moribund).

Classification
Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic
Dialects

San’a, ’Aden, Be:da, Habban. Jewish varieties markedly different from their coterritorial Muslim counterparts. A member of macrolanguage Judeo-Arabic [jrb].

Language Use

Shifted to Sanaani Spoken Arabic [ayn].

Language Development

Dictionary. Grammar.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Arabic, Judeo-Yemeni
Writing

Hebrew script [Hebr].

Other Comments

Prior to the 1950s, Yemen had more than 50,000 Jews spread throughout the country, but with the creation of the State of Israel, the vast majority left. Several thousand remained until the early 1990s, until they, too, left for Israel. Now, only a few hundred remain (2010 J. Berer). Jewish.

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