Edomite language
- Edomite language
Infobox Language
name=Edomite
region=Formerly spoken in southwesternJordan .
extinct=from the6th century BC
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Semitic
fam3=West Semitic
fam4=Central Semitic
fam5=Northwest Semitic
fam6=Canaanite
iso2=sem|iso3=xdmThe Edomite language was a Canaanite language spoken by the
Edomites in southwesternJordan in the first millennium BC. It is known only from a very small corpus. In early times, it seems to have been written with a Canaanite alphabet; like the Moabite language, it retained feminine "-t". However, in the 6th century BC, it adopted theAramaic alphabet . Meanwhile, Arabic features such as "whb" ("gave") and "tgr" "merchant" entered the language, with "whb" becoming especially common in proper names.Biblically, "
Edom " is an alternate name ofEsau , a descendant ofEber throughAbraham , and the Edomites are regarded as being aHebrew people , as are theMoab ites and Ammonites.References
* F. Israel in D. Cohen, "Les langues chamito-sémitiques". CNRS:Paris 1988.
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