Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Yemen!

Languages of Yemen: an archive photo of the war torn remains of a Yemeni street

In recent years, Yemen has made the news for its particularly brutal civil war, which has seen various ethnolinguistic groups take up arms against one another and the expulsion or fleeing of most foreigners.

Even before then, the Southern Arabian nation of a little less than 30 million wasn’t known for its linguistic diversity, even by Middle Eastern standards. So what are the languages of Yemen truly like?

Official Languages of Yemen

Arabic

Regional Languages of Yemen

Razihi

Soqotri

Mehri

Bathari

Hobyot

Foreign Languages of Yemen

English

Russian

Cham