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Name: Mehri
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Mehrī; Mahri; Meḥri
Spoken in: Yemen, Oman, Kuwait
Number of speakers: 70,600 in Yemen (2000). Population total all countries: 135,800 (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 100000 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 135764 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: gdq
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Afro-Asiatic
Parent Subgroup: Western MSA; Western Modern South Arabian (wmsa)
Child Dialects: Nagdi (gdq-nag) Western Mehri; Mehriyet (gdq-wes) Eastern Mehri; Mehriyot (gdq-eas)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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