Minaean language
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Minaean language
| Minaean | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in | Yemen |
| Extinct | 100 AD |
| Language family |
Afro-Asiatic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either: inm – Minaean xha – Harami |
The Minaean (or, to be exact, Madhabic) language was an Old South Arabian ("Sayhadic") language spoken in Yemen between 1200 BC and AD 100. The main area of its use may be localized in al-Jawf part of North-East Yemen, first of all in the Wadi Madhab. Most of the texts in this language were composed by the Minaeans, but the other civil-temple communities of the Wadi Madhab (Nashshan, Kaminahu, Haram, and Inabba') also used this language.
References
- LinguistList
- Leonid Kogan and Andrey Korotayev: Sayhadic Languages (Epigraphic South Arabian). Semitic Languages. London: Routledge, 1997, p. 157-183.
- Andrey Korotayev. Ancient Yemen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-19-922237-1
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