Lihyan
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| Ancient North Arabian | ||
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| Spoken in: | Arabia | |
| Language extinction: | marginalized by Classical Arabic from the 7th century | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Central Arabic Ancient North Arabian |
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| Writing system: | South Arabian alphabet | |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | xna | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Lihyan (Arabic:لحيان ) is an ancient Arab kingdom, it was located northwestern Arabia, and it is known for its Old North Arabian inscriptions dating to ca. the 6th to 4th centuries BC. Dedanite is used for the older phase of the history of this kingdom since their capital name was Dedan (see Biblical Dedan), which is now called Al-'Ula oasis located in northwestern Arabia, some 110 km southwest of Teima.
[edit] Literature
- Lozachmeur, H (ed.) 1995. Présence arabe dans le croissant fertile avant l'Hégire. (Actes de la table ronde internationale Paris, 13 Novembre 1993). Paris: Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations. pp. 148. ISBN 286538 2540. [1]
- Werner Caskel, Lihyan und Lihyanisch (1954)
- F.V. Winnett "A Study of the Lihyanite and Thamudic Inscriptions", University of Toronto Press, Oriental Series No. 3. [2]
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