Thamudic B

Thamudic B is a Central Semitic language and script concentrated in Northwest 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.

Thamudic B
RegionNorthwest Arabia, occasionally Syria, Egypt or Yemen
Erac. 6th century BCE
Language codes
ISO 639-3

Characteristics

    1. 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.
    2. The dative preposition is nm, which appears to be an assimilated form of an original *lima.
    3. The consonant /n/ often assimilates to a following contiguous consonant, ʔṯt from earlier *ʾVnṯat and ʔt from earlier *[ʔanta].
    4. Imperatives are often augmented by the energic suffix, -n.[1]

    References

    1. Al-Jallad, Ahmad. "Al-Jallad. 2018. The earliest stages of Arabic and its linguistic classification". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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