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Faifi
ʾal-lahja ʾal-Fayfiya, Ḫawlāniya
/həɾʒət ʔahɪl fəjfə/
Native toSaudi Arabia, Yemen
RegionJebel Fayfa, Jebel Minabbih
Native speakers
50,000 (2019)[1]
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
  • Semitic
    • West
      • Central
        • Old South Arabian (Modern Sayhadic?)
          • Faifi
Language codes
ISO 639-3fif
Glottologfaif1234

Faifi is a possible descendant of Old South Arabian language and is spoken by about 50,000 people[2] in the vicinity of the Fifa Mountains in the southwestern corner of Saudi Arabia and across the border in Jebel Minabbih, Yemen. Along with Razihi, it is possibly the only other possible surviving descendant of the Old South Arabian branch of Central Semitic.

  1. ^ Faifi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Alfaife, Saleem Mohammed (2018). A Grammar of Faifi (Thesis). Long Beach, California: California State University. ISBN 978-0-438-05160-7. ProQuest 2056841951.[page needed]

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