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Thamudic B
RegionNorthwest Arabia, occasionally Syria, Egypt, or Yemen
EraMid- to late-1st millennium BCE

Language family

Afroasiatic

Language codes
ISO 639-3

Thamudic B is a Central Semitic language and script concentrated in northwestern Arabia, with attestations in Syria, Egypt, and Yemen. As a poorly understood form of Ancient North Arabian, it is included in the Thamudic category. Mentions of the king of Babylon and the Nabataean god Dushara show that Thamudic B was written over a span of centuries, ranging at least from the seventh or sixth to fourth centuries BCE.[1]

Characteristics

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Thamudic B is mostly written horizontally, from right to left.[1] Salient linguistic features include the following:[2]

  1. The suffix morpheme of the prefix conjugation in the first person is -t, as in Arabic and Northwest Semitic, as opposed to the -kofAncient 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.

References

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  1. ^ a b Norris, Jérôme (2018). "Dushara dans une inscription thamoudique B de la région du Wādī Ramm (Jordanie du Sud)". Topoi. Orient-Occident. 22 (1): 185–223.
  • ^ Al-Jallad, Ahmad (2018). "The earliest stages of Arabic and its linguistic classification". In Benmamoun, Elabbas; Bassiouny, Reem (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics. pp. 315–331.

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