Mehri

E347904

Mehri is a Modern South Arabian language spoken primarily by the Mehri people in eastern Yemen and western Oman, known for preserving many archaic Semitic features.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Mehri canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Modern South Arabian language ⓘ
Semitic language ⓘ
language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Bathari ⓘ
Harsusi ⓘ
Hobyot ⓘ
Jibbali ⓘ
Soqotri ⓘ
linked to: Soqotri language
ethnicGroup Mehri people ⓘ
hasArchaicFeatures Semitic morphology ⓘ
Semitic phonology ⓘ
Semitic syntax ⓘ
hasDialects Omani Mehri ⓘ
Yemeni Mehri ⓘ
hasGlottocode mehr1241 ⓘ
hasISO639-3Code gdq ⓘ
hasLanguageBranch Semitic ⓘ
hasLanguageFamily Afroasiatic ⓘ
hasLanguageSubbranch Modern South Arabian ⓘ
hasLinguasphereCode 12-AAC-aa ⓘ
hasMorphologyType nonconcatenative ⓘ
root-and-pattern ⓘ
hasNotableResearcher Aaron D. Rubin ⓘ
Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle ⓘ
T. M. Johnstone ⓘ
hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate 100000 ⓘ
hasPhonemeInventory emphatic consonants ⓘ
lateral fricatives ⓘ
pharyngeal consonants ⓘ
hasPrimaryReligionOfSpeakers Islam ⓘ
hasWordOrder SVO ⓘ
VSO ⓘ
hasWritingSystem Arabic script ⓘ
linked to: Arabic alphabet

Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet
isEndangered true ⓘ
isMinorityLanguageIn Oman ⓘ
Yemen ⓘ
isThreatenedBy Arabic ⓘ
spokenIn Oman ⓘ
Yemen ⓘ
eastern Yemen ⓘ
western Oman ⓘ
subclassOf Afroasiatic language ⓘ
South Semitic language ⓘ
usedIn oral poetry ⓘ
traditional storytelling ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.