Judeo-Yemeni Arabic (also known as Judeo-Yemeni and Yemenite Judeo-Arabic) is avariety of Arabic spoken by Jews fromYemen. The language is written in theHebrew alphabet. The cities ofSana'a,Aden,al-Bayda, andHabban District and the villages in their districts each have their own dialect.^[2]

The vast majority ofYemenite Jews haverelocated to Israel and haveshifted toModern Hebrew as theirfirst language. In 1995, Israel was home to 50,000 speakers of Judeo-Yemeni in 1995, while 1,000 remained in Yemen.^[2] According to Yemeni rabbi al-Marhabi, most of them have since left for the United States. In 2010, fewer than 300 Jews were believed to remain in Yemen.^[3] As of 2022^[update], only one Jew is believed to remain in Yemen.^[4]

• Judeo-Arabic languages

• Khan, G. (Ed.). (2013, January 1).Hebrew as a secret Language in Yemenite Judeo-Arabic (EHLL). Retrieved February 13, 2015
• Wexler, P. (n.d.).Jewish Interlinguistics: Facts and Conceptual Framework. Retrieved February 13, 2015
• Piamenta, Moshe. 1990–1991. A dictionary of post-classical Yemeni Arabic. Leiden: Brill. (Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, p. xv-xxiv)).
• Goitein, Shelomo D. 1960. The language of al-gades: The main characteristics of an Arabic dialect spoken in Lower Yemen. Le Muséon 73. 351–394.

• YouTube Video of Judeo-Yemeni

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