| Thamudic B | |
|---|---|
| Region | Northwest Arabia, occasionally Syria, Egypt, or Yemen |
| Era | c. 6th century BCE |
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| ISO 639-3 | – |
Thamudic B is a Central Semitic language and script concentrated in northwestern Arabia, with attestations in Syria, Egypt, and Yemen. A single Thamudic B text mentions the king of Babylon, which suggests that it was composed before the fall of the kingdom, in the middle of the 6th century BCE.
Characteristics
- The suffix morpheme of the prefix conjugation in the first person is -t, as in Arabic and Northwest Semitic, as opposed to the -k of Ancient South Arabian and Ethiopic.
- The dative preposition is nm, which appears to be an assimilated form of an original *lima.
- The consonant /n/ often assimilates to a following contiguous consonant, ʔṯt, from earlier *ʾVnṯat and ʔt, from earlier *[ʔanta].
- Imperatives are often augmented by the energic suffix -n.[1]
References
- ↑ Al-Jallad, Ahmad. "Al-Jallad. 2018. The earliest stages of Arabic and its linguistic classification".
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