Moab#Moabite language

Spoken in

• Semitic West Semitic Northwest Semitic Canaanite Moabite

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Sem ( other Semitic languages)

Obm

The Moabite language is an extinct Semitic language of the Canaanite language branch, which was east of the Jordan and the Dead Sea spoken in the 1st millennium BC by the people of Moab. She stands in a dialect continuum with the Hebrew, and is closely related to it; the few significant differences in the retention of the old ending of the feminine in "- t", in the masculine plural ending " -n " (as in Aramaic ), and in the formation of the reflexive with infigiertem -t ( such as in Ugaritic ). The diphthongs * aj * and aw are not reflected in the typeface and are apparently already fully ē to * and * ō contracted. The most important monument of the Moabite is the so-called Meschastele that ( around 850 BC) extols the deeds of King Mesha.