- Central Soqotri
- Northern Soqotri
- North Central Soqotri
- Northwest Central Soqotri
- `Abd Al-Kuri
- Southern Soqotri
- Western Soqotri
Khaled Awadh Omer Makhashen. Morphological and Syntactic Aspects of the Soqotri Dialect of Galansiyah. PhD thesis, , 2009. Online: http://eprints.usm.my/15591/1/MORPHOLOGICAL_AND_SYNTACTIC_ASPECTS_OF_TH….
Speaker Number Trend 3
Only about half of community members speak the language. Speaker numbers are decreasing steadily, but not at an accelerated pace.
Domain Of Use 2
Used in some non-official domains along with other languages, and remains the primary language used in the home for many community members.
Transmission 3
Some adults in the community are speakers, but the language is not spoken by children.
Speakers
Location and Context
It is spoken only in the islands of Soqotra archipelago in Yemen and by the Soqotri immigrants in the Arabian Gulf States mainly in Ajman in the United Arab Emirates. Soqotra archipelago consists of Soqotra, the main and largest island, the island of Abd al-Kuri, Samha Island and Darsa Island. Soqotra archipelago is located in the Arabian Sea around 300 kilometres south of the Arabian Peninsula and 240 kilometres from the coasts of Africa. It is between the latitudes 12, 8 -12, 42 north of the equator and the longitudes 53, 19 -54, 33 east of Greenwich (Zorman, 2006)