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Name:
Soqoṭri
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Soqoṭrī; Soqotri; Saqatri; Sokotri; Suqutri; Socotri
Spoken in:
Yemen, United Arab Emirates
Number of speakers:
57,000 in Yemen (1990 census). Population total all countries: 64,000
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
50000
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
64000
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
sqt
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Afro-Asiatic
Parent Subgroup:
Eastern MSA; Eastern Modern South Arabian (emsa)
Child Dialect Group:
Northern Soqotri (sqt-nor)
Child Dialects:
Central Soqotri (sqt-cen)
`Abd Al-Kuri (sqt-abd)
Southern Soqotri; Modern South Arabian Soqotri (sqt-sou)
Western Soqotri (sqt-wes)
UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
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