Data collected on naturalistic and narrative data. Cultural topics covered centred particularly on harvesting the sea, the principal livelihood of the Batahirah, but personal data (birth, death, clothing, personal hygiene etc.), and data on material culture, animal husbandry, stories, poetry, songs, games, environment and trade were also collected. Audio data saved in WAV format. The complete collection will include photographs, audio data and transcriptions and translations in ELAN. This material can be compared to that of ‘The documentation and ethnolinguistic analysis of Modern South Arabian: Shehret’; ‘The documentation and ethnolinguistic analysis of Modern South Arabian: Harsusi’; ‘The documentation and ethnolinguistic analysis of Modern South Arabian: Hobyot’; and ‘The documentation and ethnolinguistic analysis of Modern South Arabian: Mehri’.