| Soqotri | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Yemen | |
| Total speakers: | 64,000 | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic South Semitic Modern South Arabian Soqotri |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | sqt | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Yemen ( Arabic: اليَمَن al-Yaman officially the Republic of Yemen ( Arabic: الجمهورية اليمنية al-Jumhuuriyya List of language familiesA language family is a group of Languages related by descent from a common ancestor called the Proto-language of that family The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a Language family with about 375 languages ( SIL estimate and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa The Semitic languages are a Language family whose living representatives are spoken by more than 467 million people across much of the Middle East, The West Semitic languages are a proposed major sub-grouping of Semitic languages. South Semitic is one of the three macro-classifications in Semitic linguistics the other two being East Semitic (e The Modern South Arabian (or Eastern South Semitic languages are spoken mainly by tiny minority populations on the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen and Oman. ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages ISO 639 -3 (ISO 639-32007 is an international standard for Language codes The standard describes three‐letter codes for identifying languages In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's | ||
Soqotri is the native language of the island of Socotra off the southern coast of Yemen. Socotra or Soqotra ( Arabic سقطرى; Suquṭra) is a small Archipelago of four islands and islets in the Indian Ocean Yemen ( Arabic: اليَمَن al-Yaman officially the Republic of Yemen ( Arabic: الجمهورية اليمنية al-Jumhuuriyya It is a South Semitic language. South Semitic is one of the three macro-classifications in Semitic linguistics the other two being East Semitic (e Soqotri speakers are only rarely found in the Yemeni mainland. This makes the language isolated from the rest of Yemen. Yemen ( Arabic: اليَمَن al-Yaman officially the Republic of Yemen ( Arabic: الجمهورية اليمنية al-Jumhuuriyya Arabic is also spoken on Socotra. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language [1]
Notes
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
References
- Ethnologue entry for Soqotri
- 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
- RBGE Soqotra Bibliography: at RBGE and Friends of Soqotra Org. websites.
- Soqotri spoken with Latin transcription - MP3
- [1] and [2] Soqotri folk tale text publication in CLN.
External links
- 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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