Socotra Swahili is an extinct
variety of
Swahili spoken on
Socotra Island
Socotra or Soqotra (; ar, سُقُطْرَىٰ ; so, Suqadara) is an island of the Republic of Yemen in the Indian Ocean, under the ''de facto'' control of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, a secessionist participant in Yemen ...
in Yemen. It was reported to be spoken by a fifth of the island (c. 2,000 people) in 1962.
[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]
References
Languages of Yemen
Swahili language
Socotra
Languages of the African diaspora
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