Concept information
Preferred term
Rāziḥī
Definition
- Rāziḥī is a possible descendant of Ancient South Arabian and is spoken by about 63 000 people in the vicinity of Mount Razih in the northwestern corner of Yemen. Along with Faifi and Rijal Alma, it is possibly one of the few surviving descendants of the Sayhadic branch and the Ancient South Arabian languages Hadrami, Minaean, Sabaic and Qatrabanian. Along with Berber, Chadic, Cushitic and Egyptian branches, Arabic and other Semitic languages belong to the Afro-Asiatic language family, constituting the fourth-largest language family after Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and Niger–Congo.
Entry terms
- Razihi
Identifier
- RZH
Notation
- rzh
URI
http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/RZH
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