Sabaic
Old South Arabian language spoken in Yemen / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sabaic, sometimes referred to as Sabaean, was an Old South Arabian language that was spoken between c. 1000 BC and the 6th century AD by the Sabaeans. It was used as a written language by some other peoples of the ancient civilization of South Arabia, including the Ḥimyarites, Ḥashidites, Ṣirwāḥites, Humlanites, Ghaymānites, and Radmānites.[1] Sabaic belongs to the South Arabian Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family.[2] Sabaic is distinguished from the other members of the Old South Arabian group by its use of h to mark the third person and as a causative prefix; all of the other languages use s1 in those cases. Therefore, Sabaic is called an h-language and the others s-languages.[3] Numerous other Sabaic inscriptions have also been found dating back to the Sabean colonization of Africa.[4][5]
Sabaic | |
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Native to | Yemen |
Region | Arabian Peninsula |
Extinct | 6th century |
Ancient South Arabian | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xsa |
xsa | |
Glottolog | saba1279 |