Taʽizzi-Adeni Arabic
Taʽizzi-Adeni Arabic, also known as Southern Yemeni Arabic, is a variety of Yemeni Arabic spoken in southern Yemen and Djibouti.
| Taʽizzi-Adeni Arabic | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Yemen |
| Region | Taiz, Aden |
Native speakers | 10.48 million (2015-2016)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
| |
| Arabic alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | acq |
| Glottolog | taiz1242[2] |
Taʽizzi is spoken in Taiz and parts of Ibb. Like the majority of Yemeni dialects, Taʽizzi uses the hard uvular [q] for the classical qāf (ق). Adeni dialect also substitutes dental plosives for dental fricatives: /θ/ becomes /t/, /ð/ becomes /d/, and the two (classical) emphatics, /ðˤ/ and /ɮˤ/, merged into /dˤ/. The dialect also uses /ɡ/ for the Arabic letter ǧīm ج.[3]
See also
Notes
- "Arabic, Ta'izzi-Adeni Spoken". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Watson, Janet C. E. "The Phonology and Morphology of Arabic" (PDF). Oxford. p. 16. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
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