Mehri language
Mehri or Mahri is a member of the Modern South Arabian languages, a subgroup of the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. It is spoken by the Mehri people, who inhabit isolated areas of the eastern part of Yemen and western Oman, particularly the Al Mahrah Governorate.
Mehri and its sister Modern South Arabian languages were spoken in the southern Arabian Peninsula before the spread of Arabic along with Islam in the 7th century CE. It is today also spoken by Mehri residents in Qatar, Somalia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as in Kuwait by guest workers originally from South Arabia.
Given the dominance of Arabic in the region over the past 1400 years and the frequent bilingualism with Arabic among Mehri speakers, Mehri is at some risk of extinction. It is primarily a spoken language, with little existing vernacular literature and almost no literacy in the written form among native speakers.
Dialects
Hamdani (d. 334 / 946) noted that "the Mahra speak a barbarous tongue like foreigners", that is - he knew that Mehri was not intelligible as northwest Semitic.
Vadadian, Mehri Filmography
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1997, role: actress
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1996, role: actress
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1994, role: actress
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1994, role: actress
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1994, role: actress
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1993, role: actress , character name: Maryam's mother
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1992, role: actress
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1992, role: actress
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1992, role: actress , character name: Faraj Mother
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1991, role: actress
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1990, role: actress
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1990, role: actress
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1989, role: actress
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1988, role: actress
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1988, role: actress
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1987, role: actress
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1987, role: actress
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1987, role: actress
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1987, role: actress
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1986, role: actress
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1986, role: actress
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1986, role: actress
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1984, role: actress
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1983, role: actress
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1983, role: actress
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1982, role: actress , character name: Haji's wife
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1981, role: actress
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1980, role: actress
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1978, role: actress
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1977, role: actress , character name: Mansour's wife
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1976, role: actress , character name: Agha Jan's wife
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1975, role: actress
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1974, role: actress
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1974, role: actress
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1974, role: actress , character name: Sakineh
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1974, role: actress , character name: Ghassem's mother
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1973, role: actress
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1973, role: actress
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1973, role: actress
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1972, role: actress , character name: Hajar
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1972, role: actress , character name: Amir's mother
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1972, role: actress
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1972, role: actress , character name: Daye Khanom
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1972, role: actress
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1972, role: actress
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1971, role: actress
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1971, role: actress , character name: Zari's mother
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1971, role: actress
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1971, role: actress , character name: Khosrow's mother
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1968, role: actress , character name: Ahu
