Thamudic language

Spoken in

  • Afro-Asiatic languages Semitic languages West Semitic languages North Arabian languages Early North Arabian language Thamudic

Thamudic was an old - north Arabic dialect, which is occupied by pre-Islamic inscriptions in the Arabian Desert and the Sinai. It was used between the 4th century BC to the 3rd or 4th century AD The Thamudic dialect was gradually supplanted by Arabic. The name Thamudic not derived directly from the name of the tribe of Thamud.

Credentials

  • Edward Lipinski: Semitic Languages ​​: Outlines of a Comparative Grammar, 2nd ed, Orientalia Lovanensia Analecta, Leuven 2001, p 75
Language family Sinai Peninsula
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