Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature : Volume 1.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Arabic Preface -- Abbreviations of Lexicographic Tools -- Introduction -- The Texts -- Text 1. The FaithfulWife -- Text 2. The Story of the Makon -- Text 3. Rehabhen of the Tribe di-Kishen -- Text 4. The Moon Bears Witness Against the Murderers -- Text 5. A Boy Sets His Parents on the Straight and Narrow -- Text 6. Picking Out a Husband for One's Daughter -- Text 7. A Merciful Woman and Diheko -- Text 8. di-ˀIẓ̂hamítin -- Text 9. Ḥimbóbe -- Text 10. Ṭawíse -- Text 11. A Grandfather's Advice on Goats -- Text 12. A Crazy Tourist -- Text 13. A Woman Prefers a Billy Goat -- Text 14. The Goat with One Teat -- Text 15. The Mindless Man -- Text 16. ˁÁľi bótˁiľ -- Text 17. A Wise Man's Son -- Text 18. A Jinni's Kiss -- Text 19. Two Brothers a Woman Divides -- Text 20. A Mother's Advice to Her Sleeping Baby (a Lullaby) -- Text 21. A Wondrous Palm -- Text 22. A True Friend -- Text 23. A Prayer for Rain -- Text 24. A Snake from Tuda -- Text 25. Ambergris from the Snake -- Text 26. A Chaste Woman -- Text 27. The Sultan Who Learned the Fear of God -- Text 28. A Bone That Kills -- Text 29. A Man in Times of Drought -- Text 30. The Pernicious Botfly -- Appendices -- Three Glossed Texts -- Glossary -- List of Plates -- Plates -- Bibliography.

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).

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