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Mehri
Mehri or Mahri may refer to: * Mehri people, an ethnic group of Oman and Yemen * Mehri language, the Modern South Arabian language spoken by them * Mahri, Jammu and Kashmir, a village in India People * Abdelhamid Mehri (1926–2012), Algerian resistance fighter and politician * Ahmed Mohammed Al Mahri (born 1988), UAE footballer * Djilali Mehri (born 1937), Algerian executive *Momtaza Mehri (born 1995), Somali-British poet and essayist * Sulaiman Al Mahri (1480–1550), Arab navigator * Mehri Yalfani, Persian-language writer See also * Mahra (other) {{dab, surname Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehri Language
Mehri () is the most spoken of the Modern South Arabian languages (MSALs), a subgroup of the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. It is spoken by the Mehri tribes, who inhabit isolated areas of the eastern part of Yemen, western Oman, particularly the Al Mahrah Governorate, with a small number in Saudi Arabia near the Yemeni and Omani borders. Up to the 19th century, speakers lived as far north as the central part of Oman. Mehri and its sister languages were spoken in the southern Arabian Peninsula before the spread of Arabic along with Islam in the 7th century CE. Today it is also spoken by Mehri residents in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, as well as in Kuwait by guest workers originally from Yemen, as well as nationals with a Yemeni heritage. Given the dominance of Arabic in the region over the past 1400 years and the frequent bilingualism with Arabic among Mehri speakers, Mehri is at some risk of extinction. It is primarily a spoken language, with little existi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
