Edomite

E27503

Edomite was an extinct Northwest Semitic language once spoken by the ancient Edomites in the region south of the Kingdom of Judah.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Edomite canonical 8
Edomites 8
Edomite language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Northwest Semitic language
extinct language
associatedDeity Qos
associatedWithReligion Edomite religion
attested 6th century BCE
8th century BCE
closelyRelatedTo Ammonite
Hebrew
Moabites
surface form: Moabite
culturalContext Iron Age Levant
era 1st millennium BCE
extinctionPeriod Achaemenid Empire
surface form: Persian period
geographicContext Negev desert
surface form: Negev region

Jordan
surface form: Transjordan
hasEvidenceType inscriptions
ostraca
seal impressions
hasGlottocode edom1242
hasLinguisticFeature Canaanite shift
use of definite article similar to Hebrew
influencedBy Aramaic
ISO639-3Code xdm
languageBranch Semitic
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
surface form: Afroasiatic
languageGroup Northwest Semitic
languageSubgroup Canaanite
neighboringLanguage Ammonite
Aramaic
Hebrew
surface form: Biblical Hebrew

Moabite
region Edom
area south of the Kingdom of Judah
Levant region
surface form: southern Levant
replacedBy Aramaic
scriptDirection right-to-left
sharesFeaturesWith Phoenician civilization
surface form: Phoenician
spokenBy Edomite self-linksurface differs
surface form: Edomites
status extinct
subclassOf Afroasiatic language
Canaanite language
Semitic language
usedIn administrative documents
personal names
royal inscriptions
writingSystem Aramaic alphabet (historically)
surface form: Aramaic alphabet

Phoenician alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (18)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Idumea inhabitedBy Edomite
this entity surface form: Edomites
Idumea ethnicGroupAssociatedWith Edomite
this entity surface form: Idumeans
Idumea ethnicGroupAssociatedWith Edomite
this entity surface form: Edomites
Idumea languageSpoken Edomite
this entity surface form: Edomite language
Moabite closelyRelatedTo Edomite
Northwest Semitic hasMember Edomite
Edomite spokenBy Edomite self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Edomites
Esau ethnicAncestorOf Edomite
this entity surface form: Edomites
Idumaean relatedEthnonym Edomite
Qos ethnicAssociation Edomite
this entity surface form: Edomites
Edomite language spokenBy Edomite
this entity surface form: Edomites
Oholibamah daughter of Anah associatedWithPeople Edomite
this entity surface form: Edomites
Eliphaz ethnicity Edomite
Eliphaz people Edomite
this entity surface form: Edomites