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From http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-2287.html

Soqotri Modern Standard Arabic Language folktale text in Qalansiya dialect published in California Linguistic Notes, Vol. XXX, No 1 Spring, 2006

California Linguistic Notes just published in its Vol. XXX , No 1 Spring, 2006 a Soqotran folk tale BISMILLA recorded in the dialect of Qalansiya, the second main town of the island of Soqotra (Republic of Yemen). The publication consists of a phonemic transcription (similar to classical D.H. Mueller transcriptions) of the Soqotri tale text as well as its word for word and free literated translations into English.

The file is freely available in PDF format, at http://hss.fullerton.edu/linguistics/cln

For those interested in unwritten, Afrasian, Semitic, South Arabian languages, traditional folklore, world heritage issues.
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