Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic

Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic
Native to	Yemen, Djibouti
Region	Ta'izz, Aden
Native speakers	7.1 million (1996)^[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Southern Yemeni Arabic Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic
Writing system	Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`acq`
Glottolog	`taiz1242`^[2]

Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic, also known as Southern Yemeni Arabic, is a variety of Yemeni Arabic spoken in southern Yemen and Djibouti, where it may be referred to simply as Djibouti Arabic.^[1]

Notes

1 2 Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Languages of Yemen

Official language	Arabic

Minority languages	Hobyót Mehri Razihi Soqotri

Varieties of Arabic	Yemeni Arabic Hadhrami Judeo-Yemeni Sanaani Ta'izzi-Adeni

Sign languages	Yemeni Sign Language

Languages of Djibouti

Official languages	Arabic French

Indigenous languages	Afar Somali Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic

Varieties of Arabic

Pre-Islamic

Ancient North Arabian
- Dadanitic
- Oasis North Arabian
- Dumaitic
- Hasaitic
- Hismaic
- Safaitic
- Taymanitic
- Thamudic
Pre-classical

Modern literary

Peninsular

Northeastern	Gulf Omani Shihhi Dhofari Kuwaiti Najdi

Western	Bareqi Hejazi Sedentary Bedouin

Southern	Baharna Yemeni Hadhrami Sanaani Ta'izzi-Adeni Tihami Judeo-Yemeni

Northwestern	Bedouin

Eastern

Mesopotamian	North Mesopotamian Cypriot Maronite Anatolian Judeo-Iraqi South Mesopotamian Baghdad Koiné Khuzestani

Central Asian	Afghani Khorasani Tajiki Uzbeki Qashqadaryan Bukharian

Levantine

North Levantine	North Syrian Central Levantine Central Syrian Lebanese

South Levantine	Jordanian Palestinian Urban Central village Outer southern

Nilo-Egyptian

Western

Iberian

Andalusian

Maghrebi

Pre-Hilalian	Urban Eastern Village Sahel Lesser Kabylia Western Village Traras-Msirda Mountain Jewish Judeo-Moroccan Judeo-Tripolitanian Judeo-Tunisian

Hilalian	Sulaym Libyan koiné Eastern Hilal Tunisian koiné Central Hilal Algerian koiné Central and Saharan Eastern Algerian Western Algerian Maqil Western Moroccan Eastern Moroccan Moroccan koiné Hassānīya

Siculo-Arabic

Maltese
Sicilian

Undescribed

Shirvani

Judeo-Arabic

Creoles and pidgins

Italics indicate extinct languages.

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