Soqotri language
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| Soqotri | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Yemen | |
| Region: | Arabian Peninsula | |
| Total speakers: | 67,000 | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Semitic South Semitic South Arabian Soqotri | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | sem | |
| ISO 639-3: | sqt | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Soqotri is the native language of the island of Socotra off the southern coast of Yemen. It is a South Semitic language. Soqotri speakers are only rarely found in the Yemeni mainland. This makes the language isolated from the rest of Yemen. Arabic is also spoken on Socotra.
[edit] References
- Wolf Leslau, Lexique Soqotri (sudarabique moderne) avec comparaisons et explications étymologiques. Paris: Klincksieck 1938
- D.H. Müller, Die Mehri - und Soqotri - Sprache. Volume I: Texte. Südarabische Expedition, Band IV. Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Wien: Alfred Hölder 1902
- D.H. Müller, Die Mehri - und Soqotri - Sprache. Volume II: Soqotri Texte. Südarabische Expedition, Band VI. Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Wien: Alfred Hölder 1905
- D.H. Müller, Die Mehri - und Soqotri - Sprache. Volume II: Shauri Texte. Südarabische Expedition, Band VII. Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Wien: Alfred Hölder 1907
[edit] External links
- Soqotri language on Ethnologue
- Soqotri Language at al-bab.com
- Soqotri Language at E-Paranoids
- A Bibliography with a list on Soqotri language at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh website
- The RBGE upgraded Soqotra Bibliography up to 2007 with more language references
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