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Razihi the language of Jabal Razih in the far northwestern corner of Yemen is the last surviving Old South Arabian language.Classical Arabic *š corresponds to Razihi /ɬ/ and its emphatic correlate *ḍ to general Yemeni /ð/ in recent words but to /tɬ/ in older words. There is nasal assimilation as in ssān ‘man’ ssānah ‘woman’ cognate with Arabic ʾinsān ‘person'; this was a feature of both Ancient North Arabian and Old South Arabian but is not found in any Arabic dialect.

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