Edomite language

Edomite language

Infobox Language
name=Edomite
region=Formerly spoken in southwestern Jordan.
extinct=from the 6th century BC
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Semitic
fam3=West Semitic
fam4=Central Semitic
fam5=Northwest Semitic
fam6=Canaanite
iso2=sem|iso3=xdm

The Edomite language was a Canaanite language spoken by the Edomites in southwestern Jordan 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 the Aramaic 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 of Esau, a descendant of Eber through Abraham, and the Edomites are regarded as being a Hebrew people, as are the Moabites and Ammonites.

References

* F. Israel in D. Cohen, "Les langues chamito-sémitiques". CNRS:Paris 1988.


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