Yemen Languages

Description
The official language of Yemen is the Modern Standard Arabic Most people in Yemen speak Yemeni Arabic

Other languages spoken are:
 * Mehri - largest South Semitic language spoken in Yemen
 * Soqotri - another South Semitic language
 * English - most important foreign langugage
 * Russian - significant number of people in Yemen

Word List(s)

 * useful phrases in Modern Standard Arabic - Omniglot
 * Modern Standard Arabic vocabulary - ModernStandardArabic.com

Alphabet and Pronunciation
Alphabet
 * Modern Standard Arabic alphabet - Omniglot
 * Old Yemeni alphabet - Omniglot

Pronunciation

Language Aids and Dictionaries
Dictionaries
 * Piamenta, M. A dictionary of post-classical Yemeni Arabic. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990. Available at: WorldCat.
 * Qafisheh, Hamdi A. NTC's Yemeni Arabic-English dictionary. Lincolnwood, Ill: NTC, 2000. Available at: WorldCat.

Online Dictionaries
 * Dictionary English - Arabic - Glosbe

Language Aids
 * Ryding, Karin C. A reference grammar of modern standard Arabic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Available at: WorldCat.
 * Alhawary, Mohammad T. Modern Standard Arabic grammar : a learner's guide. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Available at: WorldCat.
 * Qafisheh, Hamdi A. Yemeni Arabic reference grammar. Kensington, Md: Dunwoody Press, 1992. Available at: WorldCat.

Additional Resources

 * Risha, Sarah. Arabic for beginners : a guide to modern standard Arabic. Clarendon: Tuttle Publishing, 2021. Available at: WorldCat.
 * Ramadan, Abdulkareem Said. Conjunctions and interjections in modern standard Arabic. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019. Available at: WorldCat.
 * Huizinga, Marijke. Spoken Yemeni Arabic. Uitgeverij, Amsterdam: UV Boekhandel, 1984. Available at: WorldCat.

Somali Language Resources

 * Somali language overview
 * Somali basics and grammar
 * Somali grammar
 * Somali online dictionary
 * Country Studies - Somalia Language
 * Omniglot - Somali Alphabet
 * Wikipedia - Somali Language
 * Somali language resources
 * Somali language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 * Afro-Asiatic languages | Britannica.com