Judeo-Yemeni Arabic (also known as Judeo-Yemeni and Yemenite Judeo-Arabic) is a variety of Arabic spoken by Jews living or formerly living in Yemen.
The language is quite different from mainstream Yemeni Arabic,[citation needed] and is written in the Hebrew alphabet.
[2] The vast majority of Yemenite Jews have relocated to Israel and have shifted to Modern Hebrew as their first language.
In 1995, Israel was home to 50,000 speakers of Judeo-Yemeni in 1995, while 1,000 remained in Yemen.
[2] According to Yemeni rabbi al-Marhabi, most of these have since left for the United States.