Socotra Swahili is an extinct[1] language that was spoken on Socotra Island in Yemen. It was reported to be spoken by a fifth of the island (c. 2,000 people) in 1962.[2]
^ abJouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
^Freeman-Grenville (1965). The French at Kilwa Island. cited in Ruete; van Donzel (1993). An Arabian Princess Between Two Worlds: Memoirs, Letters Home, Sequels to the Memoirs. p. 172, fn. 48.
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SocotraSwahili is an extinct language that was spoken on Socotra Island in Yemen. It was reported to be spoken by a fifth of the island (c. 2,000 people)...
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(particularly Zanzibar) and Kenya—a seaboard referred to as the Swahili Coast—the Bantu Swahililanguage contains many Arabic loan-words as a consequence of these...
languages that originated outside the continent, although several countries also granted legal recognition to indigenous languages (such as Swahili,...
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languages as interpreted by Harald Hammarström, and following the Guthrie classification. Bantu languages Guthrie classification of Bantu languages Classification...
group tends to be associated with shared ancestry, history, homeland, language or dialect and cultural heritage; where the term "culture" specifically...
of Tadjoura is located in Djibouti and the Guardafui Channel separates Socotra island from the Horn of Africa. The northern end of the Red Sea terminates...
253. ISBN 978-1-57607-919-5. Knappert, Jan (1979). Four Centuries of Swahili Verse: A Literary History and Anthology. Heinemann. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-435-91702-9...
their opponents in battle. Tristão heeded their advice and sailed for Socotra instead. Over the next decades tensions remained high and the increased...
and in educated circles. Other minority languages include Bravanese, a variant of the Bantu Swahililanguage that is spoken along the coast by the Bravanese...
Kenya KEN English: Kenya—Republic of Kenya Swahili: Kenya—Jamhuri ya Kenya Nairobi English: Nairobi Swahili: Nairobi 53,005,614 580,367 km2 (224,081 sq mi)...
1974), p. 104 Lodhi, Abdulaziz (2000). Oriental influences in Swahili: a study in language and culture contacts. Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. p. 17...
memoirs, in which he mentions the land of Madageiscar to the south of Socotra. This name would then have been popularized on Renaissance maps by Europeans...
starting from Nanjing and finishing in Hormuz. Places in East Africa such as Socotra, Mogadishu and Malindi appear in sequence from left to right on the coast...
sparrow Passer hemileucus Abd al Kuri in the Socotra archipelago Socotra sparrow Passer insularis islands of Socotra, Samhah, and Darsah Spanish sparrow Passer...
An English exonym is a name in the English language for a place (a toponym), or occasionally other terms, which does not follow the local usage (the endonym)...
before and was a day and a half away from Mocha on his way to the island of Socotra when, suddenly, he became very ill. He had to change his destination to...
hinterland as sertanejos (backwoodsmen). These sertanejos lived alongside Swahili traders and even obtained employment among Shona kings as interpreters...
tamarind, balms and aromatics like Artemisia indica (Indian wormwood), Socotra aloe, galbanum, camphor and myrrh. Also brought back from India were dyes...
explored by Tristão da Cunha in 1507; Mauritius was discovered in 1507, Socotra occupied in 1506. In the same year Lourenço de Almeida landed in Sri Lanka...
their opponents in battle. Tristão heeded their advice and sailed for Socotra instead. After the battle the city of Barawa quickly recovered from the...
"Tetemeko la ardhi lazua taharuki Katavi, watoto wawili". Mwananchi (in Swahili). Retrieved 2019-09-11. "M 6.1 - 81km NNE of Lasem, Indonesia". earthquake...
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