Bathari is an Afro-Asiatic language of Oman, located on the coast facing the al-Hallaniyyat Islands (17°40′46″N 55°22′19″E). The language is very similar to Mehri and some members of the Bathari tribe speak Mehri instead of Bathari.The first westerner to discover the existence of Bathari was Bertram Thomas in 1929.The stress always falls on the last long syllable in Bathari, unless the stress unit is only composed of short syllables. In this case, the first syllable is stressed.