• Himyaritic is an unattested or sparsely attested Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Yemen, by the Himyarite tribal confederacy. It was a Semitic...
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    Sabaic (redirect from Sabey language)
    in Sana'a. Old South Arabian South Arabian Alphabet Himyaritic language Undeciphered -k language of ancient Yemen Ge'ez Kingdom of Aksum Sabaeans Himyarite...
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    Gerrha (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    Al-Hamdani says the etymology of Hajar means ‘large village’ in the Himyaritic language (derived from Hakar). Another location suggested as Gerrha is Thaj...
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    Arabic (redirect from Arabic (language))
    Phoenician in North Africa, Himyaritic, Modern South Arabian, and Old South Arabian in Yemen and Oman, and Aramaic and Canaanite languages (including Phoenician)...
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    Himyarite Kingdom (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    Robin, Himyaritic, in Encycl. Arab. Language & Linguistics, 2010, 256–261, ISBN 978-90-04-14973-1; Contra: P. Stein, The ‘HimyariticLanguage in pre-Islamic...
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    consistent with this were found in Almarri et al. (2021). The Himyaritic and Sutean languages appear to have been Semitic, but are unclassified due to insufficient...
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  • Arabian, Ṣayhadic, or Yemenite) is a group of four closely related extinct languages (Sabaean/Sabaic, Qatabanic, Hadramitic, Minaic) spoken in the far southern...
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  • Bareqi Arabic (category Language articles without speaker estimate)
    Bareqi Arabic is similar to the majority of Saudi Arabia dialects and Himyaritic language. All Bareqi dialects also share the unusual feature of replacing...
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  • Iranian, and Berber languages. Yemeni Arabic has Modern South Arabian, Old South Arabian and Himyaritic substrata. Typically, Creole languages have multiple...
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  • extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes...
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  • Harari is an Ethiopian Semitic language spoken by the Harari people of Ethiopia. According to the 2007 Ethiopian census, it is spoken by 25,810 people...
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    Bareq (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    shares similarities with the Hejazi & Najdi dialects, as well as the Himyaritic language. The region's crops, most of which are cultivated on small plains...
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  • authors jump to claim Faifi as a descendant of a Sayhadic language (more broadly "Himyaritic") Watson (2018) does make the argument that Faifi and Razihit...
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  • Pre-classical Arabic (category Language articles with unreferenced extinction date)
    of Arabic and Himyaritic. In the southern part of Saràt and the mountains around Sanˁàˀ, the language showed strong traces of Himyaritic. In the area to...
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    influenced by Himyaritic, Modern South Arabian and Old South Arabian languages and possesses significant substratum from these languages. Tihamiyya Arabic...
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    Spanish, Berber, Punic or Phoenician in North Africa and the Levant; Himyaritic, Modern South Arabian and Old South Arabian in Yemen; and Syriac Aramaic...
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    Khawlan (category CS1 Arabic-language sources (ar))
    Mountains still speak their mother tongue, which is an ancient Yemeni language, Himyaritic, which is threatened with extinction, and they are divided into 30...
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    List of writing systems (category Lists of languages)
    Arabian – Old South Arabian languages including Himyaritic, Hadhramautic, Minaean, Sabaean and Qatabanic; also the Ethiopic language Geʽez. Aramaic, including...
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    Sabaeans (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    Ramlat al-Sab'atayn. The Sabaean people spoke an Semitic language of their own, Himyaritic. Each of these peoples had regional kingdoms in ancient Yemen...
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    influenced by the native languages spoken in the conquered regions, such as Coptic in Egypt; Berber and Punic in the Maghreb; Himyaritic, Modern South Arabian...
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    Hebrew language spoken today. Developed as part of Hebrew's revival in the late 19th century and early 20th century, it is the official language of the...
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  • Rahmanan (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    of Aksum, the term was solely used to refer to the one biblical God. Himyaritic epigraphy also sometimes uses the term synonymously with ʾl and ʾlh. The...
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    Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum (category Articles containing French-language text)
    inscriptions Nabatean; V. Syriac language; VII. in Mandaic language; VIII. early Arabic; IX. Himyaritic; X. Amharic language The program was then divided...
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    Hadhramaut (category CS1 Arabic-language sources (ar))
    Arabia, a German scholar, Leo Hirsch, reached Wadi Hadhramaut in search of Himyaritic inscriptions. He was the first European to penetrate so far inland. Although...
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  • Judaism in pre-Islamic Arabia (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    (2018-10-22). ""The Owner of the Sky, God of Israel" in a new Jewish Ḥimyaritic Inscription Dating from the Fifth Century CE". Der Islam (in German)....
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  • characters for writing the Minean, Sabaean, Qatabanian, Hadramite, and Himyaritic languages of Yemen from the 8th century BCE to the 6th century CE. U+10A7D...
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  • Salhin (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    According to Mu'jam al-Buldan, some people believe that demons wrote in a Himyaritic inscription in Yemen, "we built Salhin, working on it continuously for...
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    Sasanian Empire (category Articles containing Middle Persian-language text)
    Roman soldiers but this must have been negligible. Semitic languages including Himyaritic and Sabaean were spoken in Yemen. The influence of the Sasanian...
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  • Al-Jiraf (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    to Hermann von Wissmann, al-Jiraf is named after a tribe mentioned in Himyaritic inscriptions. The 10th-century author al-Hamdani described al-Jiraf as...
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    Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    him via later Arabian traditions, and is not mentioned in any of the Himyaritic inscriptions. Some scholars have theorised that Ma'ad Yakrib was the son...
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