Sanaani Arabic

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Sanaani Arabic
Spoken in: Yemen 
Region: north
Total speakers: 7,600,000 (1996)
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Semitic
  West Semitic
   Central Semitic
    South Central Semitic
     Arabic
      Sanaani Arabic 
Writing system: Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: ayn

Sanaani Arabic (also known as North Yemeni Arabic) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in north Yemen. It is a variety of Yemeni Arabic. [1]

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  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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