Minaean language
- Minaean language
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Minaean Spoken in Yemen Native speakers Extinct Language family Afro-Asiatic- Semitic
- South
- Western
- Old South Arabian
- Minaean
- Old South Arabian
- Western
- South
Language codes ISO 639-3 inm 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
Categories:- Old South Arabian languages
- History of Yemen
- Afro-Asiatic language stubs
- Semitic
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