Soqotri

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Soqotri

Spoken in

Yemen
speaker approx. 64000
Linguistic
classification
Official status
Official language in ?
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

-

ISO 639 -2

sem

ISO 639-3

sqt

Soqotri ( Arabic اللغة السقطرية), also Saqatri, Sokotri, Suqutri or Socotri , is a Semitic language that is mainly spoken on the island of Socotra off the coast of Yemen . There are also speakers on the smaller islands of Abd al-Kuri and Samha as well as in the United Arab Emirates . Soqotri belongs with Mehri , Jibbāli , Ḥarsūsi , Hóbyót and Bathari to the small group of the New South Arabic languages .

literature

  • Vladimir Agafonov: Tmethel as the Brightest Element of Soqotran Folk Poetry. In: Folia Orientalia , Volume 42/43, 2006/07, pp. 241-249.
  • Maximilian Bittner: Characteristics of the language of the island of Soqotra . In: Gazette of the philosophical-historical class of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna , No. 8, Vienna 1918
  • Maximilian Bittner: Some peculiarities from the language of the island of Soqoṭra. In: Viennese magazine for the customer of the Orient . Volume 30, 1917/1918, pp. 347-358
  • Wolf Leslau : Lexique Soqotri (sudarabique modern) avec comparaisons et explications étymologiques (German: Sokotrische Lexik (modern Sübdarabisch) with comparisons and etymological explanations). Paris: Klincksieck 1938
  • David Heinrich Müller : The Mehri and Soqotri language. Volume 1: Texts. South Arabian Expedition, Volume IV. Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Alfred Hölder, Vienna 1902
  • David Heinrich Müller: The Mehri and Soqotri language. Volume 2: Soqotri Texts. South Arabian Expedition, Volume VI. Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Alfred Hölder, Vienna 1905
  • David Heinrich Müller: The Mehri and Soqotri language. Volume 3: Shauri texts. South Arabian Expedition, Volume VII. Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Alfred Hölder, Vienna 1907
  • Ewald Wagner: Syntax of the Mehri language taking into account the other New South Arabic languages. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1953
  • Ewald Wagner: The dialect of Abd-al-Kuri. In: Anthropus , 54, 1959, pp. 475-486.

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