Hadharem
الحضارم | |
|---|---|
Map of Hadhramaut and their diaspora regions | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Arabian Peninsula, East Africa, Southeast Asia | |
| Languages | |
| Hadhrami Arabic, historically Hadramautic | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam, mainly Shafi'i | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Arabs, other Old South Arabian-speaking peoples, Lembas, Chaush, Sri Lankan Moors, Sodagar, Konkani Muslims, Nawayath, Malabar Muslims, Surti Sunni Vohras, Artega |
The Hadharem (Arabic: حضارم, romanized: ḥaḍārim; singular: Hadhrami, Arabic: حضرمي, romanized: ḥaḍramī) are an Arabic-speaking ethnographic group indigenous to the Hadhramaut region in the Arabian Peninsula, which is part of modern-day Yemen. The spoken language of the Hadharem is Hadhrami Arabic. Among the two million inhabitants of Hadhramaut, there are about 1,300 distinct tribes.