page_title: Hadhrami people
section_title: Diaspora communities
hierarchical_section_title: Hadhrami people / Diaspora communities
caption_attribution_description: English: Young Hadhrami immigrants landing in Surabaya, Dutch East Indies, in the 1920s. Starting in the 19th century, a large number of young men from the impoverished Hadhramaut, South Arabia, migrated to the Far East, principally to the Dutch East Indies, Singapore and the Malay States, where they formed prosperous colonies.
context_page_description: The Hadhrami or Hadharem are people inhabiting the Hadhramaut region in Yemen and their descendants in diaspora communities around the world. They speak Hadhrami Arabic an Arabic dialect with a heavy Hadramite Substrate, which belongs to the South Semitic languages.
  Among the two million inhabitants of Hadhramaut, there are about 1,300 distinct tribes.
context_section_description: Sri Lankan Moors
  Arab Indonesian
  Arab Malaysian
  Arab Singaporean
  Chaush, India
  Sodagar (Gujarati Shaikh)
  Nawayath, of Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka;Barkas, Hyderabad, India
  Labbay of Kerala, India
  Hadhrami Jews in Israel and abroad
   The Surti Sunni Vohra Community in Gujarat that are partially of hadhrami descent
  Lemba people who claim Jewish ancestry via Hadramaut's historic Jewish population
caption: Hadhrami immigrants in Surabaya (Indonesia), 1920
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