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Shehri (Arabic: شحرية), also
known as
Jibbali ("mountain"
language in
Omani Arabic), is a
Modern South Arabian language; it and the
three island varieties...
- Socotra. As of 2012,
there were
around 60,000 speakers. Shehri: also
called Jibbali,
meaning "of the Mountains", is
spoken in the
Dhofar Governorate of Oman...
- for Proto-Semitic: An
additional emphatic phoneme /ʃʼ/ (/çʼ/ in
Central Jibbali)
occurs in all the
Modern South Arabian languages.
There are few occurrences...
- more dominant,
neighboring Modern South Arabian languages like
Mehri and
Jibbali. A
clear linguistic description of
Hobyot is difficult, as many speakers...
-
indigenous languages in Oman
include Kumzari, Bathari, Harsusi, Hobyot,
Jibbali and Mehri.
Omani Sign
Language is the
language of the deaf community. Oman...
- to the non-correspondence of, for example, Arabic,
Hebrew and
Shehri (
Jibbali)
words for ‘ten’ from Proto-Semitic (ʕ-s₂-r). Notes: s₁ (š) is [ʃ], sometimes...
-
Arabic ظ as in
Harsusi /ɬˤa.her/ vs.
Arabic ظهر /ðˤahr/ "back". In
Shehri (
Jibbali) it also
corresponds to
Arabic ض [mi.rəɬˤ] vs. مرض /ma.ri.dˤa/ "he fell...
- the
Hebrew in Ugaritic, Judaeo-, Syriac, and
standard Aramaic, Harari,
Jibbali, Soqotri, Mehri, and more.
while šdh
means a
plain in
Canaanite but a mountain...
-
occupation is fishing. The
inhabitants speak a
dialect of the
Shehri (or
Jibbali) language.
During the Charif, from mid-May to mid-September, cold water...
-
sometimes [h] and [jɦ] (in Soqotri) - [ʃ] and [ɕw] (for some
speakers of
Jibbali) ṯ [θ], ḏ [ð] and ṯ̣ [θʼ]
merge with [t], [d], and [tʼ] in Soqotri...
