Razihi is a South Semitic language with about 63,000 speakers in the northwest of Yemen, particularly on Mount Razih (Jabel Razih) to the west of Saʾdah (صَعْدَة), in the Saʾdah District of the Saada Governorate.
Razihi is also known as Rāziḥī or Jabal Rāzih. It is thought to be a descendant of the Ancient South Arabian languages, a group of extinct language that were spoken in the south of the Arabian Peninsula until about the 6th century AD. Or, it is a variety of Arabic that has been heavily influenced by Ancient South Arabian languages. It is not comprehensible to speakers of Yemeni Arabic.
There appear to be ways to write Razihi with the Arabic and Latin alphabets.
Download an alphabet chart for Razihi (Excel)
kān bē nās tiḥārabū. ṭalaʿ ʿabdu b-bārī ḥasan suwād ṣāliḥ qattalūm. ʿabdu b-bārī mā b-lā zaḥaf sī ḥalḥalah wi-zarrab ʿalēhu as-sayyid smāʿil sā nuṣf il-lēlit.
There were men fighting. Abdul Bari, Hasan Suwad and Husayn Salih fought them. Abdu l-Bari just crawled to a cave and Sayyid Isma’il closed up the cave on him until midnight.
Source: Two texts from Jabal Razih North west Yemen
Information about Razihi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razihi_language
https://laskon.fandom.com/wiki/Razihi_language
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41223879
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/44708855_Two texts from Jabal Razih North west Yemen
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Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 06.04.26. Last modified: 06.04.26
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