Sabaean
Sign in to saveSabaic, sometimes referred to as Sabaean, was a Sayhadic language that was spoken between c. 1000 BC and the 6th century AD by the Sabaeans. It was used as a written language by some other peoples of the ancient civilization of South Arabia, including the Ḥimyarites, Ḥashidites, Ṣirwāḥites, Humlanites, Ghaymānites, and Radmānites. Sabaic belongs to the South Arabian Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family. Sabaic is distinguished from the other members of the Sayhadic group by its use of h to mark the third person and as a causative prefix; all of the other languages use s1 in those
Key facts
- Language.name
- Sabaic
- Language.states
- Yemen
- Language.region
- Arabian Peninsula
- Language.extinct
- 6th century
- Language.familycolor
- Afro-Asiatic
- Language.fam2
- Semitic
- Language.fam3
- West Semitic
- Language.fam4
- South Semitic?
- Language.fam5
- Southwestern?
- Language.fam6
- Sayhadic
- Language.script
- Ancient South Arabian
- Language.iso3
- xsa
- Language.glotto
- saba1279
- Language.glottorefname
- Sabaic
- Language.linglist
- xsa
- Language.era
- 1200 BC - 6th century
- Language.ethnicity
- Sabaeans
- Language.imagecaption
- Votive stele with Sabaic inscription addressed to the main Sabaean deity Almaqah, mentioning five other South Arabian gods, two reigning sovereigns and two governors: "Ammī'amar son of Ma'dīkarib dedicated to Almaqah Ra'suhumū. With 'Athtar, with Almaqah, with dhāt-Ḥimyam, with dhât-Ba'dân, with Waddum, with Karib'īl, with Sumhu'alī, with 'Ammīrayam and with Yadhrahmalik." Alabaster, c. 700 BC, Yemen, area of Ma'rib (?).
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27 sectionsContents
- Script
- Varieties
- Phonology
- Vowels
- Diphthongs
- Consonants
- Sabaic consonants
- Grammar
- Personal pronouns
- Nouns
- Case, number and gender
- Grammatical states
- Verbs
- Conjugation
- Perfect
- Imperfect
- Imperative
- Derived stems
- Syntax
- Position of clauses
- Subordinate clauses
- Relative clauses
- Vocabulary
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Sabaic, sometimes referred to as Sabaean, was a Sayhadic language that was spoken between c. 1000 BC and the 6th century AD by the Sabaeans. It was used as a written language by some other peoples of the ancient civilization of South Arabia, including the Ḥimyarites, Ḥashidites, Ṣirwāḥites, Humlanites, Ghaymānites, and Radmānites. Sabaic belongs to the South Arabian Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family. Sabaic is distinguished from the other members of the Sayhadic group by its use of h to mark the third person and as a causative prefix; all of the other languages use s1 in those cases. Therefore, Sabaic is called an h-language and the others s-languages. Numerous other Sabaic inscriptions have also been found dating back to the Sabean colonization of Africa.
Sabaic is very similar to Arabic and the languages may have been mutually intelligible.