 Of those, 50,000 live in Yemen (2011), 50,800 in Oman (2000), and 14,400 in Kuwait (2000), and according to Saudi officials there are around 20,000 Mehri speakers in Saudi Arabia.The Mehri speak the Mehri language as their native language.It belongs to the Modern South Arabian (MSA) subgroup of the Afroasiatic family's Semitic branch.