Moabite
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Moabite is an ancient Northwest Semitic language once spoken by the Moabite people east of the Dead Sea, known primarily from a small corpus of inscriptions such as the Mesha Stele.
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canaanite language
ⓘ
Northwest Semitic language ⓘ extinct language ⓘ |
| associatedDeity | Chemosh ⓘ |
| attestedIn | 9th century BCE ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Ammonite
ⓘ
Edomite ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ Phoenician civilization ⓘ
surface form:
Phoenician
|
| era | 1st millennium BCE ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Moabites ⓘ |
| extinction | by early 1st millennium CE ⓘ |
| geographicContext |
Iron Age
ⓘ
surface form:
Iron Age Transjordanian kingdoms
|
| hasCaseSystem | relic Semitic case endings (partially preserved) ⓘ |
| hasCorpusType | epigraphic ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
imperfect verb prefix y-
ⓘ
use of definite article -h ⓘ use of feminine ending -t ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalGender |
feminine
ⓘ
masculine ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalNumber |
plural
ⓘ
singular ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature | root-and-pattern morphology ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | fusional ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | guttural consonants typical of Semitic ⓘ |
| ISOStatus | no ISO 639-3 code ⓘ |
| knownFrom |
Khirbet al-Mudayna inscriptions
ⓘ
Mesha Stele ⓘ
surface form:
Mesha Inscription
Mesha Stele ⓘ short ostraca ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Afroasiatic languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Afroasiatic
Canaanite ⓘ Northwest Semitic ⓘ Semitic ⓘ |
| linguisticStatus | poorly attested ⓘ |
| primarySourceLanguageOf | Mesha Stele text ⓘ |
| region |
Levant region
ⓘ
surface form:
Levant
|
| religiousContext | West Semitic polytheism ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
| sharesIsoglossWith |
Hebrew
ⓘ
surface form:
Biblical Hebrew
Phoenician language ⓘ
surface form:
Phoenician-Punic
|
| spokenIn |
Moab
ⓘ
Jordan ⓘ
surface form:
Transjordan
region east of the Dead Sea ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Afroasiatic language
ⓘ
Semitic language ⓘ |
| usedFor |
public monumental texts
ⓘ
royal inscriptions ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Paleo-Hebrew script
ⓘ
Phoenician alphabet ⓘ |
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.