Taʽizzi-Adeni Arabic


Taʽizzi-Adeni Arabic, also known as Southern Yemeni Arabic, is a variety of Yemeni Arabic spoken in southern Yemen and Djibouti.
Taʽizzi is spoken in Taiz and parts of Ibb. Like the majority of Yemeni dialects, Taʽizzi uses the hard uvular for the classical qāf. Adeni dialect also substitutes dental plosives for dental fricatives: becomes, becomes, and the two emphatics, and, merged into. The dialect also uses for the Arabic letter ǧīm ج.