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Jibbali – frequently called Shehri (or mountain language) in Omani Arabic – is a Modern South Arabian language spoken by a minority native population in the coastal towns and in the mountains and wilderness areas upland from Salalah in Dhofar Province in the southwest of the Oman.Shehri sometimes confused as a dialect of Arabic even by Omani Arabs. In fact the Modern South Arabian languages belong to its own branch of the West Semitic languages.
