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Mehri or Mahri is a Modern South Arabian language a subgroup of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic 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 is a remnant of an ancient Afro-Asiatic language group spoken in the southern Arabian Peninsula before the spread of Arabic along with Islam in the 7th century CE.
