• Thumbnail for Soqotri language
    Soqotri (also spelt Socotri, Sokotri, or Suqutri; autonym: ماتڸ دسقطري, mɛ́taḷ di-saḳɔ́ṭri; Arabic: اللغة السقطرية, al-luḡah al-suquṭriyyah) is a South...
    29 KB (3,199 words) - 12:11, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Soqotri people
    The Soqotri people, sometimes referred to as Socotran, are a South Arabian ethnic group native to the Gulf of Aden island of Socotra. They speak the Soqotri...
    7 KB (684 words) - 08:28, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Socotra
    (/səˈkoʊtrə, soʊ-, ˈsɒkətrə/; Arabic: سُقُطْرَىٰ Suquṭrā) or Saqatri (Soqotri: ساقطْري Saqaṭri) is an island of Yemen in the Indian Ocean. Lying between...
    47 KB (4,363 words) - 21:51, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Modern South Arabian languages
    Saudi Arabia. A person who speaks the language is referred to as Mahri. Soqotri: another relatively numerous example, with speakers on the island of Socotra...
    10 KB (756 words) - 13:28, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hajhir Mountains
    Hazrat Muqadriyoun and Herem Hajhir.[citation needed] The name "Hajhir" (Soqotri: هَجْهِر), sometimes transliterated as "Hagghier" or "Hagher" in English...
    3 KB (280 words) - 12:58, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Languages of Somalia
    of 2006). In 2010, Somalia claimed that the island of Socotra, wherein Soqotri is spoken, should be instilled as part of its sovereignty, arguing that...
    20 KB (2,216 words) - 15:56, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mehri people
    island of Socotra, the Mehri inhabitants speak the native Soqotri language of the Soqotri people. The Mehri language is most closely related to other...
    14 KB (1,602 words) - 04:38, 3 November 2024
  • comprise several ethnic groups of Yemen with African ancestry: Al-Muhamashīn Soqotri people, a Semitic ethnic group Somalis in Yemen, a Somali-speaking ethnic...
    246 bytes (62 words) - 02:30, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Middle East
    Afro-Asiatic languages. Several Modern South Arabian languages such as Mehri and Soqotri are also spoken in Yemen and Oman. Another Semitic language is Aramaic...
    71 KB (7,720 words) - 18:56, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yemen
    nation, with more than 70,000 speakers. The ethnic group is called Mahra. Soqotri is another South Semitic language, with speakers on the island of Socotra...
    211 KB (21,200 words) - 18:24, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Semitic languages
    Modern South Arabian languages distinct from Arabic still survive, such as Soqotri, Mehri and Shehri which are mainly spoken in Socotra, Yemen, and Oman.[citation...
    144 KB (10,978 words) - 18:43, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yemeni Arabic
    include several Modern South Arabian languages, such as the Mehri and Soqotri languages, which are members of an independent branch of the Semitic family...
    14 KB (1,583 words) - 18:47, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pharyngealization
    fricative [ɬˤ] pharyngealized voiced alveolar lateral fricative [ɮˤ] (in Soqotri, a variant pronunciation in Mehri, and postulated for Classical Arabic)...
    13 KB (1,091 words) - 13:01, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Somali people
    Islam Christianity Traditional faiths Language Arabic Somali (Maay Maay) Soqotri Italian English Politics Parliament Military Economy Laws Symbols Transportation...
    143 KB (15,396 words) - 18:07, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Somali language
    Islam Christianity Traditional faiths Language Arabic Somali (Maay Maay) Soqotri Italian English Politics Parliament Military Economy Laws Symbols Transportation...
    47 KB (3,994 words) - 07:26, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bariis iskukaris
    Islam Christianity Traditional faiths Language Arabic Somali (Maay Maay) Soqotri Italian English Politics Parliament Military Economy Laws Symbols Transportation...
    4 KB (426 words) - 10:58, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Natufian culture
    than Levantines. Sirak et al. (2024) found that medieval Socotra (the Soqotri people), similar to modern Saudis, Yemenis and Bedouins, have a majority...
    62 KB (6,794 words) - 01:40, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Modern Hebrew
    Eastern (Mod- ern Arabian) Baṭḥari Ḥarsusi Hobyot Mehri Shehri Soqotri Western...
    53 KB (4,617 words) - 06:36, 7 November 2024
  • Proto-Semitic, and is compared to a phoneme in South Semitic languages such as Soqotri, but also in Mehri where it is usually an ejective lateral fricative. The...
    12 KB (1,079 words) - 18:49, 31 October 2024
  • Rade Tay Thai Vietnamese sign languages Vietnamese Yemen 1 Arabic Mehri Soqotri Zambia 1 English Zimbabwe 16 Chewa Chibarwe English Kalanga Khoisan Nambya...
    72 KB (2,488 words) - 05:44, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Istunka
    Islam Christianity Traditional faiths Language Arabic Somali (Maay Maay) Soqotri Italian English Politics Parliament Military Economy Laws Symbols Transportation...
    3 KB (299 words) - 20:47, 19 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lullaby
    2021). "Lulling Babies to Sleep in Soqotra: What Can We Learn from the Soqotri Lullaby?". Folklore. 132, 4 (4): 390–411. doi:10.1080/0015587X.2021.1905381...
    44 KB (5,278 words) - 09:07, 21 October 2024
  • is also proposed for South Arabian minority languages, like Mehri and Soqotri. In Israel, where official announcements are often trilingual or triscripted...
    4 KB (348 words) - 12:47, 20 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shehri language
    a Modern South Arabian language; it and the three island varieties of Soqoṭri comprise the eastern branch of Modern South Arabian. It is spoken by a...
    9 KB (769 words) - 16:06, 23 October 2024
  • Micronesian → Sonsorolese Palau (Sonsorol) Christianity Soqotris Afro-Asiatic → Modern South Arabian → Soqotri Yemen (Socotra) Islam Sorbs Indo-European → Slavic...
    418 KB (3,623 words) - 06:16, 11 November 2024
  • Above Kurdish U+06B8 ڸ   ‎ Arabic Letter Lam With Three Dots Below Avar, Soqotri U+06B9 ڹ   ‎ Arabic Letter Noon With Dot Below U+06BA ں   ‎ Arabic Letter...
    69 KB (1,036 words) - 10:29, 23 September 2024
  • (6.7%), Egyptians (5.7% in El-Hayez; 14.7% in Gurna), Saudis (5.3–10%), Soqotri (3.1%), Nubians (1.3%), and Yemenis (0–13.9%). Among all these clades,...
    50 KB (4,794 words) - 06:08, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jatropha unicostata
    family Euphorbiaceae. It is endemic to Socotra island Yemen. Its name in Soqotri is "sibru". Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests...
    2 KB (104 words) - 02:29, 24 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Mehri language
    phonetic transcription and Romanizations) in the columns of the table below. Soqotri language Shehri language Mehri at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Walter Dostal...
    15 KB (1,066 words) - 12:09, 30 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Voiceless dental and alveolar lateral fricatives
    Hebrew [s]: Among Semitic languages, the sound still exists in contemporary Soqotri[citation needed] and Mehri. In Ge'ez, it is written with the letter Śawt...
    49 KB (3,621 words) - 16:26, 2 November 2024