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Razihi language

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Native to
  
Yemen

Glottolog
  
jaba1234

ISO 639-3
  
rzh

Language family
  
Afro-Asiatic Semitic South Western Old South Arabian Jabal Razih

Razihi (Rāziḥī), the language of Jabal Razih in the far northwestern corner of Yemen, is the only surviving descendent of the Old South Arabian languages.

Classical Arabic

  • š corresponds to Razihi /ɬ/, and its emphatic correlate,
  • ḍ, to general Yemeni /ð/ in recent words, but to /tɬ/ in older words. There is nasal assimilation, as in ssān 'man', ssānah 'woman', cognate with Arabic ʾinsān 'person'; this was a feature of both Ancient North Arabian and Old South Arabian, but is not found in any Arabic dialect. Razihi also has a large number of non-Arabic basic vocabulary items, prepositions and other grammatical forms.

    • References

    Razihi language Wikipedia
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