Yemenite

Nineteenth-century Hebrew had three principal dialects: Sephardi, Ashkenazi, and Yemenite.

Ashkenazi Hebrew uses a sibilant fricative where Yemenite Hebrew has a non-sibilant fricative.

There are many similarities between the vowel systems of Ashkenazi and Yemenite Hebrew.

Ashkenazi and Yemenite Hebrew are closely related to the Tiberian reading tradition of the Masoretic Text, while Sephardi Hebrew is more closely related to the Palestinian tradition.

Esther's family are Yemenite Jews.

In Tiberian, Yemenite, and Ashkenazi Hebrew, long a merged with short o.

He's a Yemenite Jew.

She's a Yemenite Jew.

Yemenite Hebrew is the closest living tradition to Tiberian Hebrew, though it actually comes from the similar Babylonian Hebrew.

For the most part the scientists and philosophers of the Muslim world were of Persian, Turkish, or Berber blood, but al-Kindi was descended from the Yemenite kings of Kinda.