Description
Al-Fatk, Al Ghaydah district, Al Mahrah Governorate, Yemen: fishing village on the N4 coastal road, built mostly along the eastern bank of a wadi draining into Moon Bay, Arabian Sea. The area is inhabited by the Mehri also known as the al-Mahrah tribe, are named after Mahra bin Haydan, are an ethnic group living primarily in the Al-Mahra Governorate and the island of Socotra. They speak a non-Arabic language called Mehri or Mahri ( مهريّت ), the most spoken of the Modern South Arabian languages (MSALs), a subgroup of the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family family.
