Socotrans or 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.

Ethio-Semitic is a family of languages spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan. They form the western branch of the South Semitic languages, itself a sub-branch of Semitic, part of the Afroasiatic langu