Soqotri (also spelt Socotri, Sokotri, or Suqutri; autonym: ماتڸ دسقطري, mɛ́taḷ di-saḳɔ́ṭri; Arabic: اللغة السقطرية, al-luḡah al-suquṭriyyah) is a South...
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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...
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(/səˈkoʊtrə, soʊ-, ˈsɒkətrə/; Arabic: سُقُطْرَىٰ Suquṭrā) or Saqatri (Soqotri: ساقطْري Saqaṭri) is an island of Yemen in the Indian Ocean. Lying between...
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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...
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Hazrat Muqadriyoun and Herem Hajhir.[citation needed] The name "Hajhir" (Soqotri: هَجْهِر), sometimes transliterated as "Hagghier" or "Hagher" in English...
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Languages of Somalia (section Soqotri)
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...
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island of Socotra, the Mehri inhabitants speak the native Soqotri language of the Soqotri people. The Mehri language is most closely related to other...
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comprise several ethnic groups of Yemen with African ancestry: Al-Muhamashīn Soqotri people, a Semitic ethnic group Somalis in Yemen, a Somali-speaking ethnic...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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include several Modern South Arabian languages, such as the Mehri and Soqotri languages, which are members of an independent branch of the Semitic family...
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fricative [ɬˤ] pharyngealized voiced alveolar lateral fricative [ɮˤ] (in Soqotri, a variant pronunciation in Mehri, and postulated for Classical Arabic)...
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Islam Christianity Traditional faiths Language Arabic Somali (Maay Maay) Soqotri Italian English Politics Parliament Military Economy Laws Symbols Transportation...
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than Levantines. Sirak et al. (2024) found that medieval Socotra (the Soqotri people), similar to modern Saudis, Yemenis and Bedouins, have a majority...
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Eastern (Mod- ern Arabian) Baṭḥari Ḥarsusi Hobyot Mehri Shehri Soqotri Western...
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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...
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Rade Tay Thai Vietnamese sign languages Vietnamese Yemen 1 Arabic Mehri Soqotri Zambia 1 English Zimbabwe 16 Chewa Chibarwe English Kalanga Khoisan Nambya...
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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...
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is also proposed for South Arabian minority languages, like Mehri and Soqotri. In Israel, where official announcements are often trilingual or triscripted...
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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...
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Micronesian → Sonsorolese Palau (Sonsorol) Christianity Soqotris Afro-Asiatic → Modern South Arabian → Soqotri Yemen (Socotra) Islam Sorbs Indo-European → Slavic...
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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...
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(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,...
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family Euphorbiaceae. It is endemic to Socotra island Yemen. Its name in Soqotri is "sibru". Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests...
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phonetic transcription and Romanizations) in the columns of the table below. Soqotri language Shehri language Mehri at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Walter Dostal...
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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...
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