Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature

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posted on 2015-04-15, 08:40 authored by Leonid Kogan, Vitaly Naumkin, ʿIsa Gumʿan al-Daʿrhi, Ahmed ʿIsa al-Daʿrhi, Dmitry Cherkashin, Maria Bulakh, Ekaterina Vizirova

The Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature is a unique source of grammatical, lexical and folkloristic data about the extremely archaic, yet heavily understudied, Modern South Arabian language Soqotri (island Soqotra, Gulf of Aden, Yemen).