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    Hadramautic language

    Ḥaḑramautic or Ḥaḑramitic was the easternmost of the four


    known languages of the Old South Arabian subgroup, of Semitic. It Hadhramautic
    was used in the Hadhramaut and also the area round the Hadrami
    Hadhramite capital of Shabwah, in what is now Yemen. The Native to Yemen
    Hadramites also controlled the trade in frankincense through their
    Era 800 BC – 600 AD
    important trading post of Sumhuram (Hadramautic S1 MHRM), now
    Khor Rori in the Dhofar Governorate, Oman. Language Afro-Asiatic
    family
    Semitic
    South
    Contents Western
    Script and phonology Old South
    Arabian
    History
    Hadhramautic
    References
    Bibliography Language codes
    ISO 639-3 xhd
    Linguist List xhd (http://multi
    Script and phonology tree.org/codes/xh
    d)
    Almost the entire body of evidence for the ancient Ḥaḑramautic Glottolog hadr1235 (http://
    language comes from inscriptions written in the monumental Old glottolog.org/res
    South Arabian script, consisting of 29 letters, and deriving from the ource/languoid/i
    Proto-Sinaitic script. The sounds of the language were essentially d/hadr1235)
    the same as those of Sabaean (see Sabaean language).

    Noteworthy characteristics of Ḥaḑramautic include its tendency,


    especially in inscriptions from Wādī Ḥaḑramawt, to represent Old
    South Arabian ṯ as s3 : thus we find s2 ls3 ("three"; cf. Sabaean
    s2 lṯ.)[1] There are also instances where ṯ is written for an older form
    s3 ; e.g. Ḥaḑramautic mṯnad ("inscription"), which is msnd in the
    rest of Old South Arabian.[2]
    Kingdom of Hadramawt in 400 BC
    History
    Potsherds with Old South Arabian letters on them, found in Raybūn, the old Ḥaḑramite capital, have been
    radiocarbon dated to the 12th century BC.[3] The language was certainly in use from 800 BC but in the 4th
    century AD the Ḥaḑramite Kingdom was conquered by the Ḥimyarites, who used Sabaean as an official
    language, and since then there are no more records in Ḥaḑramautic.

    During the course of the language’s history there appeared particular phonetic changes, such as the change
    from ˤ to ˀ, from ẓ to ṣ, from ṯ to s3 . As in other Semitic languages n can be assimilated to a following
    consonant, compare ʾnfs1 "souls" > ʾfs1

    In Ḥaḑramautic the third person pronouns begin with s1 . It has feminine forms ending in ṯ and s3 .
    References
    1. Leonid E. Kogan and Andrey Korotayev: Sayhadic (Epigraphic South Arabian). In: The Semitic
    Languages, edited by Robert Hetzron.Pg. 223. Routledge, London, 1997.
    2. Leonid E. Kogan and Andrey Korotayev: Sayhadic (Epigraphic South Arabian). In: The Semitic
    Languages, edited by Robert Hetzron. Pg. 223. Routledge, London, 1997.
    3. Leonid E. Kogan and Andrey Korotayev: Sayhadic (Epigraphic South Arabian). In: The Semitic
    Languages, edited by Robert Hetzron.Pg. 220. Routledge, London, 1997.

    Bibliography
    Leonid Kogan and Andrey Korotayev: "Sayhadic Languages (Epigraphic South Arabian)" in
    Semitic Languages. London: Routledge, 1997, p. 157-183.

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