Al-Masdar Online, an independent Yemeni news website, posted the video on its website showing a man and two women, and saying that they were the French aid workers taken hostage in the southeast on May 28.
In the clip of one minute and 49 seconds, the bearded man states in French that "we have been hostages for 102 days" and that he had been part of a project in Seyun.
Sitting on the floor with two women dressed in black and their heads covered, he identified himself as an engineer and team leader, saying they were still being held because the kidnappers' demands have yet to be met.
He gave no indication, however, of the nature of their demands.
"It is them," said Triangle Generation Humanitaire, the French non-governmental organisation that employs the three who went missing.
"We have proof that they are alive. It is an immense relief as we haven't had any news for more than 100 days," group director Patrick Verbruggen told AFP.
"They seem to be in good shape. They spoke clearly," he added.
An employee at Humanitaire who saw the video had earlier also confirmed to AFP that those in the footage were his three missing colleagues.
Yasser al-Arani, the editor of Al-Masdar Online, told AFP that the website had "received the video in an email from a stranger."
The emergence of the video on Monday is the first sign of the three aid workers since they went missing.
Tribal sources said in July that the three -- from French non-governmental group Triangle Generation Humanitaire -- were seized by Al-Qaeda militants in the Hadramawt town of Seyun, 600 kilometres (370 miles) east of Sanaa.
Their car was found on the road some 20 kilometres from Shibam, a city known as the "Manhattan of the Desert" because of its spectacular high-rise mud-brick buildings, a Yemeni security official said at the time.
On July 27, tribal sources said the "kidnappers are Al-Qaeda members and are demanding a ransom of $12 million" for the release of the three abducted French citizens.
The account could not be independently verified.
And when asked about the tribesmen's claims, French foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said: "We do not have this information.
"We have been engaged from the beginning in attempting to free our compatriots, and, in their interest, we must exercise the utmost discretion to preserve the effectiveness of our action."
Security officials in Hadramawt province had said they had succeeded in identifying the kidnappers and that they belonged to "an Islamist extremist group," without naming the organisation.
Foreigners have frequently been kidnapped in Yemen by tribes who use the tactic to pressure the authorities into making concessions.
More than 200 foreigners have been kidnapped in Yemen over the past 15 years, with almost all of them later freed unharmed.
Source: AFP
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