Thamudic
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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 | |
Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | – | |
ISO 639-3: | xna | |
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Thamudic is an Old North Arabian dialect known from pre-Islamic inscriptions scattered across the Arabian desert and the Sinai. Dating to between the 4th century BC and the 3rd or 4th century AD, they were incorrectly named after the Thamud people, with whom they are not directly associated.
[edit] References
- Lipinski, Edward (2001). Semitic Languages: Outlines of a Comparative Grammar, 2nd ed., Leuven: Orientalia Lovanensia Analecta, 75.
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