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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.
Swahili is spoken by 15.5 million people as a first or as a second language (Ethnologue). Along with English, it is the official language of Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda, and is the only African language of the African Union.Swahili is also spoken in Burundi, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, and the U.S. (Ethnologue) .he Swahili-speaking populations on the East African coast served as intermediaries between the Bantu-speaking peoples in the interior of Africa and the traders on the coast who came from South Asia and Arabia. The use of Swahili spread with the growth of commerce during the colonial period in the 19th-20th centuries.