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Hobyót Language
Hobyót is a member of the Modern South Arabian languages. It is spoken in Yemen and Oman by the Hobyót people. It is an endangered language spoken by less than one hundred people.

General Info
Hobyót (ISO 639-3) is a Modern South Arabian language, a subgroup of the semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. There are six official Modern South Arabian languages; the other five are Mehri, Soqotri, Bathari, Harsusi, and Jibbali. While Hobyót is linguistically similar to Mehri and Jibbali, there are currently no known dialects of Hobyot. Of all the Modern South Arabian languages, Hobyót is the least studied. Linguists first came across Hobyót in the field in 1984. Furthermore, it is difficult for linguists to record and produce a clear linguistic description of Hobyót, as it is hard to come by in pure form. Even native speakers of Hobyót incorporate Mehri into their everyday speech. There are about 100 Hobyòt speakers in Oman and when linguists doing fieldwork in Yemen inquired number of speakers, their informants guessed a speaking population of under 400 speakers.