Jibbali language

Jibbali language

Jibbali (The multiple alternate names include Ehkili, Geblet, Jibali, Qarawi, Shahari, Shehri, and Sheret) is a language of Oman, interesting to philologists as one of the oldest of Semitic languages. One of six members of the South Arabian language family, its ISO 639-3 code is shv. There were about 25,000 people who spoke it as of 1993.


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