Editing Aden (section)

=== Dialects ===
{{Main|Yemeni Arabic|Taʽizzi-Adeni Arabic}}

The entry of the Yemenis into Islam contributed to their abandoning their ancient script and replacing it with the late Nabataean alphabet in which the Qur’an was written.{{Efn|Jawad Ali says: It appears from researchers finding writings written in the Musnad in various places in the Arabian Peninsula, including the coasts of the Arabian Gulf, some of which are ancient and some of which are close to Islam, that the Musnad pen was the authentic and first Arabic pen among the Arabs. All the people of the Arabian Peninsula wrote about it, but the Christian preaching that entered the Arabian Peninsula and spread in various places brought with it the late Armenian pen, the pen of the Eastern churches, and began spreading it among the people. Because it was his sacred pen with which the clerics used to write. Since this pen was easier to write than the musnad, it found widespread followers among those who converted to Christianity and among pagans as well, due to its ease of writing. However, it was not able to eliminate the musnad as people continued to write with it. When Islam came, the scribes wrote the revelation with the pen of the people of Mecca so that the revelation would descend among them. The Mecca pen became the official pen for the Muslims, and Al-Musnad was then sentenced to death. He died and was forgotten by the Arabs, until the Orientalists resurrected him and brought him back to existence again, to translate for us the ordinary writings that were recorded in him. Jawad Ali, Al-Mufassal fi Tarikh al-Arab before Islam, vol. 8, p. 153|name=note1}} Today, Yemenis speak Arabic in the Yemeni dialect, which is a developed dialect and closely linked to the ancient language.<ref>AFL Beeston.'' foreign loanwords in Sabaic'' 1994 pp.39-45</ref> It has three dialects with branches: the [[Sanʽani Arabic|Sanani dialect]], the [[Hadhrami Arabic|Hadrami dialect]], and the [[Taʽizzi-Adeni Arabic|Taizi-Adeni dialect]], in addition to the [[Bedouin Arabic|Bedouin dialect]] of the residents of [[Marib]]. [[Al Jawf Governorate|Al-Jawf]], [[Shabwa]], and [[Hadhramaut#Inner Hadhramaut|Inner Hadhramaut]], and each of these dialects has characteristics and features.<ref>Janet C E Watson; ʻAbd al-Salām ʻAmri.''Wasf San'a : texts in San'ani Arabic'' Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2000. p.324</ref><ref>A. Al-Saqqaf (2006): Co-referential devices in Hadramî Arabic, pp. 75-93</ref>