Tihamiyya Arabic

Variety of Arabic

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Tihamiyya Arabic
Tihamiyya, Tihami
تهامية
Native to	Yemen
Region	Tihamah
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Ta'izzi-Adeni Tihamiyya Arabic
Writing system	Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Tihāmiyyah (Arabic: تهامية Tihāmiyyah; also known as Tihamiyya, Tihami) is the

Bab el Mandeb

, it is often used especially for the more Southern part of the plain.

Pronunciation

The Tihami Arabic or Tihamiyya dialect has many aspects which differentiate it from all other dialects in the Arab world. Phonologically Tihami is similar to the majority of Yemeni dialects, pronouncing the qāf (

ق) as [g

]. Grammatically all Tihami dialects also share the unusual feature of utilizing the definite article (am-) as opposed to the prefix (al-) seen in many Arabic varieties. The future tense, much like the dialects surrounding Sanaa, is indicated with the prefix (š-), for all persons, e.g. ša-būk am-sūq "I will go to the Souq". Some Tihami dialects, such as that spoken in Al-Hodeida, are otherwise fairly similar to other Yemeni dialects in grammar and syntax, differing mainly in vocabulary, while others can be so far from any other Arabic dialect that they are practically incomprehensible even to other Yemenis.

See also

• Varieties of Arabic
• Yemeni Arabic
• Zabid

References

External links

• Shaghi, Abdullah and Imtiaz Hasanain (2009). Arabic Pausal Forms and Tihami Yemeni Arabic pausal /u/: History and Structure. In Hasnain S. Imtiaz (ed.) Aligarh Journal of linguistics. Department of Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. Vol. 1, January- December 2009, 122-139.