FYI: Temethel Soqotri Poetry Genre In Folia Orientalia

Author:	Vladimir Agafonov
Linguistic Field(s):	Sociolinguistics Text/Corpus Linguistics
FYI Body:	For those interested in Soqotri MSA language, South Arabian folklore and its language, unwritten and endangered languages, sociolinguistics. An article named ''Temethel As The Brightest Element Of Soqotran Folk Poetry'' (pp. 241-249) by Vladimir Agafonov saw print in the just published Folia Orientalia Journal, vol. XLII-XLIII, 2006-2007, Krakow, Poland. The article describes the genre of temethel and its significance in Soqotri folklore, gives a general classification of its items with relates examples in Soqotri and English translation, discusses facts connecting with these poetry pieces appearence beginning from the old traditional verses till those composed in 1970s. All the Soqotri material studied was recorded by the author in 1976-1980 on the island of Socotra.