Hobyót language

Hobyót language

Infobox Language
name=Hobyót
states=Oman, Yemen
speakers=about 100 (1998)
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Semitic
fam3=West Semitic
fam4=South Semitic
fam5=Modern South Arabian
iso3=hoh

Hobyót (also known as Hewbyót, Hobi) is an endangered Semitic language spoken in a small area of Oman and neighboring Yemen. [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.]

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* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=hoh Ethnologue entry for Hobyót]

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