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((Short description|Cluster of varieties of Arabic spoken in Yemen and southwestern Saudi Arabia))
((Infobox language
| name             = Yemeni Arabic
| nativename       = ((lang|ar|لهجة يمنية))
| states           = [[Yemen]] and southern [[Saudi Arabia]]
| ethnicity        = [[Yemenis]]
| speakers         = ((sigfig|29.906580|2)) million
| date             = 2020
| ref              = e27
| familycolor      = Afro-Asiatic
| fam2             = [[Semitic languages|Semitic]]
| fam3             = [[West Semitic languages|West Semitic]]
| fam4             = [[Central Semitic languages|Central Semitic]]
| fam5             = [[Arabic]]
| fam6             = [[Peninsular Arabic|Peninsular]]
| dia1             = [[Hadhrami Arabic|Hadhrami]]
| dia2             = [[Sanaani Arabic|Sanaani]]
| dia3             = [[Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic|Ta'izzi-Adeni]]
| dia4             = [[Judeo-Yemeni Arabic|Judeo-Yemeni]]
| script           = [[Arabic alphabet]]
| sign             = [[Yemeni Sign Language|Yemeni Sign]]
| lc1              = ayh
| ld1              = [[Hadhrami Arabic]]
| lc2              = ayn
| ld2              = [[Sanaani Arabic]]
| lc3              = acq
| ld3              = [[Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic]]
| lc4              = jye
| ld4              = [[Judeo-Yemeni Arabic]]
| glotto           = sana1295
| glottoname       = Sanaani
| glottorefname    = Sanaani Arabic
| glotto2          = hadr1236
| glottoname2      = Hadrami
| glottorefname2   = Hadrami Arabic
| glotto3          = taiz1242
| glottoname3      = Ta'izzi-Adeni
| glottorefname3   = Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic
| glotto4          = jude1267
| glottoname4      = Judeo-Yemeni
| glottorefname4   = Judeo-Yemeni Arabic
| notice           = IPA
| map              = Árabe yemení.png
| mapcaption       = Areas where Yemeni Arabic is spoken (in dark blue those areas where it is widely spoken).((small|(The map does not indicate where the language is majority or minority.)))
))
'''Yemeni Arabic''' (((Lang-ar|لهجة يمنية|translit=Lahja Yamaniyyah))) is a cluster of [[varieties of Arabic]] spoken in [[Yemen]] and southwestern [[Saudi Arabia]].<ref name="Dalby">((cite book|last=Dalby|first=Andrew|title=Dictionary of Languages: The Definitive Reference to More Than 400 Languages|year=1999|publisher=Bloomsbury Pub Ltd.|isbn=978-0231115681|pages=25|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yKSeVLghcfQC&pg=PA25))</ref> It is generally considered a very [[conservative (linguistics)|conservative]] dialect cluster, having many [[Classical Arabic|classical]] features not found across most of the Arabic-speaking world.

Yemeni Arabic can be divided roughly into several main [[dialect]] groups, each with its own distinctive [[vocabulary]] and [[phonology]]. The four most important groups are [[San'ani Arabic|San'ani]] in the North and Centre and [[Hadhrami Arabic|Hadhrami]] in the East, where ((angbr|[[ق]])) is pronounced ((IPAblink|g)) and ((angbr|[[ج]])) is ((IPAblink|d͡ʒ)) or ((IPAblink|ʄ)) (except in coastal Hadhrami where ((angbr|[[ج]])) is ((IPAblink|j))), in addition to [[Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic|Ta'izzi-Adeni]] in the South and [[Tihamiyya Arabic|Tihami]] in the West, where ((angbr|[[ق]])) is ((IPAblink|q)) and ((angbr|[[ج]])) is ((IPAblink|g)). Yemeni Arabic is used for daily communications and has no official status; [[Modern Standard Arabic]] is used for official purposes, education, commerce and media.

Non-Arabic [[South Semitic languages]] indigenous to the region include several [[Modern South Arabian languages]], such as the [[Mehri language|Mehri]] and [[Soqotri language]]s, which are members of an independent branch of the Semitic family. Another separate Semitic family once spoken in the region is [[Old South Arabian]];  these became extinct in the pre-Islamic period with the possible exceptions of [[Razihi language|Razihi]] and [[Faifi language|Faifi]]. Some of these share areal features with Yemeni Arabic owing to influence from or on Yemeni Arabic.

Yemeni Arabic itself is influenced by [[Himyaritic]], [[Modern South Arabian]] and [[Old South Arabian]] languages and possesses significant [[Substrata (linguistics)|substratum]] from these languages.<ref>((Cite web |url=http://usir.salford.ac.uk/17631/1/WP%20%282011%29_watson.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-05-12 |archive-date=2017-05-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170516222523/http://usir.salford.ac.uk/17631/1/WP%20(2011)_watson.pdf |url-status=dead ))</ref>

==San'ani Arabic dialect==
((Main article|San'ani Arabic))

==Ta'izzi-Ibb Arabic dialect==
((main|Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic))

==Tihamiyya Arabic==
((Refimprove-section|date=January 2023))
[[Tihamiyya Arabic]] has many aspects that differentiate it from all other dialects in the Arab world.  Phonologically Tihami is similar to the majority of Yemeni dialects, pronouncing the ''((transl|ar|DIN|qāf))'' (((lang|ar|[[ق]]))) as ((IPAblink|q)) and the ''((transl|ar|DIN|ǧīm))'' (((lang|ar|[[ج]]))) as a velar plosive ((IPAblink|ɡ)) (the ''((transl|ar|DIN|ǧīm))'' pronunciation is also shared with [[Egyptian Arabic]]).  Grammatically, all Tihami dialects also share the unusual feature of replacing the definite article (''al-'') with the prefix (''am-'').  The future tense, much as in the dialects surrounding [[Sana'a]], is indicated with the prefix (''š-'') for all persons, e.g. ''šabūk am-sūq'' "I shall go to the market”.  Some Tihami dialects, such as that spoken in [[al Hudaydah]], are otherwise fairly similar to other Yemeni dialects in grammar and syntax, differing mainly in vocabulary, while others can be so far from any other Arabic dialect that they are practically incomprehensible even to other Yemenis.

===Zabidi dialect===
Of all the dialects of the Tihama region, the dialect of Zabid displays the most innovations. It shares the transformed definite article of (''am-'') originally used in [[Himyaritic]] with the rest of the Tihami dialects, but it is unique in retaining certain of the declensional suffixes in the nominative case.  Indefinite masculine nouns in nominal sentences as well as the subjects of verbal sentences are suffixed with the sound (''-ū''), which stems from the classical suffix (''-un/-u'').  Likewise the phonology of the Zabidi sub-dialect replaces the sound (''ʿain'') ((IPA|[ʕ])) ([[ع]]) with the glottal stop ( ʾ ) ((IPA|[ʔ])) ([[ء]]).  In terms of vocabulary, the Zabidi dialect shares very little with other Arabic dialects, in many respects seeming to be a different language. Zabidis use the verb ''bāka'', ''yabūk'', to mean ‘to go’, the word ''goh#d'' and ''goh#da'' to mean ‘man’ and ‘woman’ respectively and the word ''fiyān'' to mean ‘where’, hence the phrase: ''fiyān bāyku?'' meaning ‘Where are you going?’, which is grammatically parallel to the more familiar: ''wayn rāyih?'' of more mainstream dialects. (citation?)

==Hadhrami Arabic dialect==
===Phonology===
The [[Hadhrami Arabic|Hadhrami dialect]] in many towns and villages in the ''Wādī'' (valley) and the coastal region is characterised by its pronunciation of the voiced palatal plosive (or affricate) ([[ج]]) as the semi-vowel  ([[ي]]) (''y'') (((IPAblink|j))). In this it resembles some Eastern Arabian and Gulf dialects including the dialects of Basra in Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the other Arab Emirates. In educated speech ([[ج]]) is realised as a voiced palatal implosive (((IPA|[ʄ]))) or affricate (((IPA|[dʒ]))) in some lexical items.

The [[ق]] ((IPA|[q])) reflex is pronounced as a voiced velar ((IPA|[ɡ])) in all lexical items throughout the dialect. With the spread of literacy and contact with speakers of other Arabic dialects, future sociolinguistic research may reveal whether HA is going to witness innovation such as using the uvular ((IPA|/q/)) in certain lexemes while retaining the velar ((IPA|/ɡ/)) for others.

Wādī HA makes ث / ت  ((IPA|[t])), ((IPA|[θ])) (((angle bracket|t)), ((angle bracket|ṯ))) and ذ / د ((IPA|[d])), ((IPA|[ð])) (((angle bracket|d)), ((angle bracket|ḏ))) distinction but ض (Classical Arabic ((IPA|/ɮˤ/))) ((angle bracket|ḍ)) and ظ ((IPA|[ðˤ])) ((angle bracket|đ̣)) are both pronounced ظ ((IPA|[ðˤ])) whereas Coastal HA merges all these pairs into the stops د , ت and ض  (/t/, /d/ and /ḍ/) respectively.

In non-emphatic environments, (ā) is realised as an open front (slightly raised) unrounded vowel. Thus
(θānī)  “second; psn. name”, which is normally realised with an ((IPA|[ɑː]))-like quality in the Gulf dialects, is realised with an ((IPA|[æː])) quality in HA.

This dialect is characterised by not allowing final consonant clusters to occur in final position. Thus Classical Arabic  ''bint''  ‘girl’ is realised as ''binit''.  In initial positions there is a difference between the Wādī and the coastal varieties of HA. Coastal HA has initial clusters in (bġā) ‘he wants’, (''bṣal'') ‘onions’ and (''brīd'') ‘mail (n.)’, whilst Wādī HA realises the second and third words as (''baṣal'') and (barīd) respectively.

===Morphology===
When the first person singular comes as an independent subject pronoun, it is marked for gender, thus (anā) for masculine and (anī) for feminine. As an object pronoun it comes as a bound morpheme, thus (–nā) for masculine and (–nī) for feminine. The first person subject plural is (naḥnā).

The first person direct object plural is (naḥnā) rather than (–nā) as in many dialects. Thus the cognate of the Classical Arabic (ḍarabanā), ‘he hit us’, is (đ̣arab naḥnā) in HA.

Stem VI, (tC1āC2aC3), can undergo a vowel stem shift to (tC1ēC2aC3), thus changing the pattern vowel (ā) to (ē). This leads to a semantic change as in (tšāradaw), ‘they ran away suddenly’, and (tšēradaw), ‘they shirk, try to escape’.

Intensive and frequentative verbs are common in the dialect. Thus /kasar/ ‘to break’ is intensified to /kawsar/ as in  (kōsar fi l - l‘ib), ‘he played rough’. It can be metathesized to become frequentative as (kaswar min iđ̣-đ̣aḥkāt), ‘he made a series (lit. breaks) of giggles or laughs’.

===Syntax===
The syntax of HA has many similarities to other Peninsular Arabic dialects. However the dialect contains a number of unique particles used for coordination, [[Negation in Arabic|negation]] and other sentence types. Examples in coordination include (kann, lākan) ‘but; nevertheless, though’, (mā)  (Classical Arabic ''ammā)''  ‘as for’ and (walla) ‘or’.

Like many other dialects, apophonic or ablaut passive (as in /kutib/ ‘it was written’) is not very common in HA and perhaps is confined to clichés and proverbs from other dialects including Classical Arabic.

The particle  /qad/  developed semantically in HA into /kuð/ or  /guð/ ‘yet, already, almost, nearly’ and /gad/ or /gid/  ‘maybe, perhaps’.

===Vocabulary===
There are a few lexical items that are shared with [[Modern South Arabian languages]], which perhaps distinguish this dialect from other neighbouring Arabian Peninsula dialects. The effect of Hadrami migration to [[Southeast Asia]] (see [[Arab Singaporeans]]), the [[Indian subcontinent]] and [[East Africa]] on HA is clear in the vocabulary especially in certain registers such as types of food and dress, e.g. (ṣārūn) "sarong".  Many loan words were listed in al-Saqqaf (2006):<ref>A. Al-Saqqaf (2006): Co-referential devices in Hadramî Arabic, pp. 75-93 ''[[Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik]]'' Issue 46. http://semitistik.uni-hd.de/zal/zal46.htm</ref>

==Yafi'i Arabic dialect==
While there is much about the [[Lower Yafa]]'i dialect that has not been thoroughly studied, it has a very interesting phonological shift. Along with the southern bedouin dialects, in Abyan and Lahej, with which it shares much in common, Yafi'i pronounces the classical ''jīm'' ([[ج]]) as ''gīm'', but unlike all other dialects, Yafi'i systematically pronounces the classical sound ''ġayn'' (((IPA|/ʁ/))) as ''qain'' and ''qāf'' as ''ġāf'', effectively switching the pronunciation of one letter for the other. An illustration of the phonemic interchange can be seen in the Yafi'i words baġar “cow” and qanam “goat”, which correspond to the classical words baqar “cow” and ġanam “goat”.

Although a similar phonological shift occurs in certain words in the Sudan, the similarities are rather misleading. Whereas the shift is systematic in Yafi', occurring at every instance of the relevant phonemes, in Sudan, it is usually a form of hypercorrection that takes place only in certain classical words. In Sudan, the phoneme ((IPA|[q])) is systematically pronounced ((IPA|[ɡ])) in all common words, with the pronunciation ''ġ'' ((IPA|[ʁ])) occurring as a hypercorrection in words such as ''istiqlāl'' "independence", pronounced ''istighlāl'' (meaning ‘exploitation’ in Standard Arabic).

==See also==
* [[Al-Hujariah#Al-Hugariyyah Arabic|Hugariyyah Arabic]]

==Notes==

((Reflist))

== Further reading ==
* Shaghi, Abdullah and Imtiaz Hasanain (2009). Arabic Pausal Forms and Tihami Yemeni Arabic pausal /u/: History and Structure. In Hasnain S. Imtiaz (edt.) Aligarh Journal of linguistics. Department of Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. Vol. 1, January- December 2009, pp. 122-139
* [[Martine Vanhove|Vanhove, Martine]]. 1995. NOTES ON THE ARABIC DIALECTAL AREA OF YĀFIʿ (YEMEN). ''Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies'', ''25'', 141–152. ((JSTOR|41223556))
== External links ==
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*[http://www.vjf.cnrs.fr/lacito/archivage/languages/Yemeni_Arabic.htm Recording of Yemeni Arabic]

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