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Shehri language

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Shehri
Jibbali
Pronunciation[dʒibbaːli][1]
Native toOman
Native speakers
59,000 (2001-2011)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3shv
Glottologsheh1240
ELPJibbali

Shehri, or Jibbali, is a Semitic languages. It is spoken by a small number of people in towns by the coast and in mountains in Oman.

References

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  1. Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude. "MEHRI AND HOBYOT SPOKEN IN OMAN AND YEMEN". Retrieved 19 September 2019 – via www.academia.edu.
  2. "Shehri". Ethnologue. Retrieved 28 June 2018.

Further reading

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  • Fradkin, R. (1985). Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 19(1), 103–104. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/23057846
  • Hayward, K., Hayward, R., & Al-Tabūki, S. (1988). Vowels in Jibbāli Verbs. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 51(2), 240–250. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/618210
  • Marie-Claude Simeone-Simelle. 1997. The Modern South Arabian Languages. In Robert Hetzron (ed.), The Semitic Languages, 378–423. London & New York: Routledge.
  • Moseley, C. (2010). Encyclopedia of the world's endangered languages. London: Routledge. The Middle East and North Africa
  • Rubin, Aaron D. The Jibbali (Shaḥri) language of Oman: grammar and texts. Leiden: Brill, 2014. Print.