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Soqotri or Socotri (autonym: méthel d-saqátri; Arabic: اللغة السقطرية) is the language of the native population of the island of Socotra and Abd al Kuri and Samhah islands of the Socotra archipelago off the southern coast of the Republic of Yemen. It is one of the Modern South Arabian languages.Soqotri speakers live on their islands but rarely on the Yemeni mainland. The language was through its history isolated from the Arabian mainland.
