• The Minaean language (also Minaic, Madhabaic or Madhābic) was an Old South Arabian or Ṣayhadic language spoken in Yemen in the times of the Old South...
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    The Minaean people were the inhabitants of the kingdom of Ma'in (Minaean: 𐩣𐩲𐩬 Maʿīn; modern Arabic معين Maʿīn) in modern-day Yemen, dating back to the...
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    Qedarites (category Articles containing Minaean-language text)
    came to an end, the Liḥyān dynasty or tribe taking contron of Dadān, and Minaeans from South Arabia set up a colony in Dadān in collaboration with the Dadanites...
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  • Wadd (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    was erected by Minaeans living on the Greek island of Delos. The altar contains two inscriptions, one of which is in Minaean language and the other in...
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    Bet Sebat Bet Gurage Inor Old South Arabian (Ṣayhadic) Sabaic (extinct) Minaean (extinct) Qatabanian (extinct) Awsānian (extinct) Hadramautic (extinct)...
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  • Nashan (category Articles containing Minaean-language text)
    Nashan (Minaean: 𐩬𐩦𐩬 romanized: NŠN, Našān; modern day Kharbat Al-Sawda', Arabic: خربة السوداء, romanized: Ḵirba al-Sawdāʾ) is the name of an ancient...
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    Pre-Islamic Arabia (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    Arabia was the home to a number of kingdoms, such as the Sabaeans and the Minaeans, and Eastern Arabia was inhabited by Semitic-speaking peoples who presumably...
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  • Qaryat al-Fāw Late Sabaean: 5th and 6th centuries AD. Minaean: (also called Madhabian): the language of the city states in al-Jawf − with the exception of...
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  • of the Minaean Kingdom in the 1st century BCE, Qarnāwu lost its importance, and was probably abandoned not long after. Minaeans Minaean Language Ancient...
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    Baraqish (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    its columns are still erect. The city is mentioned in a number of Minaean language temple stelae across southern Arabia. From 1989-90 and 2003-07, a team...
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  • Qatabānian also has another word for "one", ˤs1tn, which is cognate with the Minaean ˤs1t (and with forms in Akkadian, Ugaritic and Hebrew). The Qatabānian...
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    Ancient history of Yemen (category CS1 uses Arabic-language script (ar))
    Egypt. It was the first of the South Arabian kingdoms to end, and the Minaean language died around 100 CE. The Ḥimyarites eventually united Southwestern Arabia...
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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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    Sabaic (redirect from Sabey language)
    languages: b-y-s2ṭ "he trades" (Qatabānian). With the meaning of the perfect: w-y-qr zydʾl b-wrḫh ḥtḥr "Zaid'il died in the month of Hathor" (Minaean)...
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  • Haram (Yemen) (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    settlements and city states, and inscriptions in all four towns are in the Minaean language. Archive for the study of ancient south Arabian inscriptions in Kharibat...
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  • Kaminahu (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    settlements and city states. Inscriptions in all four towns are in the Minaean language. Norbert Nebes: Itaʾamar der Sabäer: Zur Datierung der Monumentalinschrift...
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  • that way. The shift of *š to h occurred in most Semitic languages (other than Akkadian, Minaean, Qatabanian) in grammatical and pronominal morphemes, and...
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  • Nashaq (category Articles containing Minaean-language text)
    Nashaq (Minaean: 𐩬𐩦𐩤 romanized: Nšq; modern day Kharbat Al-Bayda', Arabic: خربة البيضاء) is the name of an ancient South Arabian city in the northern...
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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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    Qahtanite (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    Hebrew, and Nabatean, which is closely related to the Southern Semitic languages Minaean, Sabaean, Qatabanian, Awsanian, Hadhrami, Ethiopic, and Himyarite...
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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)
    spoke an Semitic language of their own, Himyaritic. Each of these peoples had regional kingdoms in ancient Yemen, with the Minaeans in Wādī al-Jawf to...
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    successful instance of a complete language revival. Hebrew, a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family, was spoken since antiquity...
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    Khawlan (category CS1 Arabic-language sources (ar))
    the days of the Minaeans. It was mentioned that they attacked with the Sabeans a Minaean caravan led by 'Kabiran', and the Minaeans praised their gods...
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    Ancient South Arabian script (category Articles containing Old South Arabian-language text)
    writing the Old South Arabian languages Sabaic, Qatabanic, Hadramautic, Minaean, and Hasaitic, and the ancient language of Eritrea, Geʽez in Dʿmt. The...
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    Mehri people (category CS1 Arabic-language sources (ar))
    features with the Old South Arabian languages (Epigraphic South Arabian), as spoken by the ancient Sabaeans, Minaeans, and Qatabanians. Additionally, many...
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    extinct languages of Asia, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers, and no spoken descendant. There are 130 languages listed...
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    Kingdom of Hadhramaut (category Articles containing Hadrami-language text)
    in the early or late 5th century BCE, the Ḥaḍramites, Qatabānians and Minaeans together rejected the hegemony of Sabaʾ to instead became the dominant...
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  • List of lunar deities (category Articles containing traditional Chinese-language text)
    Sin (Mesopotamian mythology) God Ta'lab (Arabian mythology) God Wadd (Minaean mythology) God Yarikh (Amorite and Ugaritic mythology) God Ay Ata God Andriambahomanana...
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  • Merari (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
    Encyclopedia, Levite was originally just a job title, deriving from the Minaean word lawi'u meaning priest, rather than having been the name of a tribe...
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