Original sentence: Despite historical contacts with the Arabic language, there is no mutual understanding between the native speakers of the Modern South Arabian languages and the native speaker of Arabic.Historically, Soqotri were Nestorian Christians, ever since Christianisation of the island up until the 15th century, when the island was occupied by the Mehri Sultanate in 1480.Islamic intolerance led to the destruction of churches in Socotra.It belongs to the Modern South Arabian languages which are closer to the Ethiopian Semitic languages than to Arabic (Central Semitic languages).Moreover, there is no mutual understanding between the speakers of the Modern South Arabian languages themselves, and the Soqotri language is only spoken on the island of Socotra.This led to slow islamisation of the Soqotri
Edited sentence: It belongs to the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic family.Up to approximately the Late Middle Ages, most Soqotri followed Christianity in the form of Nestorianism under the Church of the East