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Hadhrami Arabic
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Hadhrami Arabic, or Ḥaḍrami Arabic (ḤA), is a variety of Arabic spoken by the Hadhrami people (Ḥaḍārem) living in the region of Hadhramaut in southeastern Yemen, with a small number of speakers found in Kenya.[1]
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Hadhrami Arabic | |
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Native to | Yemen |
Ethnicity | Hadharem |
Speakers | 5.1 million (2020)[1] |
Arabic alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ayh |
Glottolog | hadr1236 |
![]() Distribution of Hadhrami Arabic according to Ethnologue | |
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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]