Himyaritic
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[edit]Himyaritic
- (obsolete) Old South Arabian. [to be expected till ca. 1950]
- (historiography) Any language or dialect belonging to Himyarites and reported from an ancient Arabic perspective as peculiar.
- 2007, Christian Robin, edited by Versteegh, Kees, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 257b:
- If the traditional Arab and Islamic scholars are to be believed, the Ḥimyaritic language was incomprehensible to a speaker of Arabic.
- An imagined Semitic language belonging to the Himyarites who however generally wrote Sabaean.
Adjective
[edit]Himyaritic (comparative more Himyaritic, superlative most Himyaritic)
- Related or belonging to the aforementioned language or language group.
References
[edit]- ^ “Himyaritic”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
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