Razihi language
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| Jabal Razih | |
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| Razihi | |
| Native to | Yemen |
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Afro-Asiatic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | rzh |
| Glottolog | jaba1234[1] |
Razihi (Rāziḥī), the language of Jabal Razih in the far northwestern corner of Yemen,[2] is the only surviving descendent of the Old South Arabian languages.[1]
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.[2]
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| Minority languages | |
| Varieties of Arabic | |
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