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| Himyaritic | ||
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| Spoken in | South-western portion of the Arabian Peninsula | |
| Language extinction | ca. 10th c. CE | |
| Language family | Afro-Asiatic
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| Writing system | South Arabian alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | – | |
| ISO 639-3 | – | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Himyarite language was a South Semitic tongue spoken in the south-western Arabian peninsula until the 10th century. Evidence of ancient culture and fragments of South Arabic inscriptions judged to be Himyaritic have been found dating from before 700 BC.
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Further reading
- This text is adapted from James Cowles Prichard's public domain, Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind.
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