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Shahara
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Shahara by country
Figures in 1000.
Third column: % of country population |
Oman
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50 |
1.5% |
Saudi Arabia
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45 |
0.2% |
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Arabian people of Oman and Saudi Arabia, counting 100,000. About 50,000 live in Yemen, 45,000 in Saudi Arabia.
They have their own language, which belongs to the South Arabian language family: Shehri.
Their homelands is the Dhofar region of Oman, in the mountains north of Salalah. The Shahara form the following tribes: Qara, Shahra, Barahama, Bait Ash-Shaik and a few of them belong to the tribe of Batahira.
The Shahara is among the least described ethnic groups on the Arabian peninsula, often omitted by scholars and not present in many statistical overviews. What group they are placed under varies, they often disappear into the larger group of Arabs.
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