Soqotrans

Soqotrans
السقطريون
Soqotri people, 1918
Total population
71,400
Regions with significant populations
 Yemen
Languages
Soqotri and Yemeni Arabic
Religion
Islam
Related ethnic groups
Other Semitic-speaking peoples
Especially Harasis, Mehri, and other Modern South Arabian-speaking peoples

Soqotrans are a South Arabian ethnographic group native to the Yemeni island of Socotra. They speak the Soqotri language, a Modern South Arabian language in the Afroasiatic family.

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