An incredible place when it comes to culture. Due to its isolation, Socotra has kept languages which have been extinguished throughout the rest of the world. It has its own language, Soqotri, which is a south semitic language. Due to its isolation, not much is known of the soqotri language as it has not been studied much outside of the island.

Now that the the presence of the arabian peninsula is felt more and more on the island, the language is threatened by Arabic. Arabic is now taught in school and people are slowly but surely giving up the old language. Still, the arabic spoken varies greatly from the Arabic spoken in Riyadh. Even though it is a small island, it does contains many dialects of both Soqotri and Arabic.