Yemeni Arabic Learner's Dictionary and Quiz

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Yemeni Arabic is a cluster of varieties of Arabic spoken in Yemen, southwestern Saudi Arabia, Somaliland, and Djibouti. Yemeni Arabic can be divided roughly into several main subdialect groups, each with its own distinctive vocabulary and phonology.The most important four groups are San'ani in the North and Center and Hadhrami in the East, where ⟨ق⟩ is pronounced [g] and ⟨ج⟩ is [d͡ʒ] or [ɟ] (except in coastal Hadhrami where ⟨ج⟩ is [j]), in addition to Ta'izzi-Adeni in the South and Tihami in the West, where ⟨ق⟩ is [q] and ⟨ج⟩ is [g].

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