Judeo-Yemeni Arabic

Judeo-Yemeni Arabic (also known as Judeo-Yemeni and Yemenite Judeo-Arabic) is a variety of Arabic spoken by Jews living or formerly living in Yemen. The language is quite different from mainstream Yemeni Arabic,^{[citation needed]} and is written in the Hebrew alphabet. The cities of Sana'a, Aden, al-Bayda, and Habban District and the villages in their districts each have (or had) their own dialect.^[2]

Judeo-Yemeni Arabic
Yemenite Judeo-Arabic
Native to	Israel, Yemen
Ethnicity	Yemenite Jews
Native speakers	38,000 (2010–2018)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Arabic languages Peninsular Yemeni Arabic Judeo-Yemeni Arabic
Writing system	Hebrew alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	jye
Glottolog	jude1267
ELP	Judeo-Yemeni Arabic

The vast majority of Yemenite Jews have relocated to Israel and have shifted to Modern Hebrew as their first language. In 1995, Israel was home to 50,000 speakers of Judeo-Yemeni in 1995, while 1,000 remained in Yemen.^[2] According to Yemeni rabbi al-Marhabi, most of them have since left for the United States. In 2010, fewer than 300 Jews were believed to remain in Yemen.^[3] As of 2022^[update], only one Jew is believed to remain in Yemen.^[4]

See also

• Judeo-Arabic languages