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South Arabian languages. Yemen is together with Oman, the home region of South Arabian languages; there are 6 such languages still alive tday. In Yemen there are two major South Arabian languages: Mehri; and Socotri. The third language of some size, Shehri, is not listed among spoken languages in Yemen. Mehri is spoken by the Mahra people. Socotri is the language of Socotra, but the natives to Socotra are not distinguished as a separate native group.
Although only around five to fifteen million people speak Swahili as their first language, it is used as a lingua franca in much of Southeast Africa. Estimates of the total number of Swahili speakers vary widely, from 60 million to over 150 million.t is a lingua franca of the African Great Lakes region and other parts of Southeast Africa, including Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The closely related Comorian language, spoken in the Comoros Islands, is sometimes considered a dialect.