Old Sabaic

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Semitic language South Arabian language ancient language language

Old Sabaic is an ancient South Arabian dialect used in early inscriptions of the Sabaean civilization in what is now Yemen.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Early Sabaic 1
Old Sabaic canonical 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Semitic language ⓘ
South Arabian language ⓘ
ancient language ⓘ
language ⓘ
ancestorOf later Sabaic ⓘ
associatedWith Sabaean kingdom ⓘ
surface form: Sabaean administration

Sabaean law ⓘ
Sabaean religion ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Hadramitic ⓘ
Minaic ⓘ
Qataban ⓘ
surface form: Qatabanic
extinct true ⓘ
hasFeature case endings ⓘ
consonantal script ⓘ
grammatical gender ⓘ
no vowel letters ⓘ
triconsonantal roots ⓘ
ISO639-3Code xsa ⓘ
languageBranch Semitic languages ⓘ
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
languageGroup Old South Arabian ⓘ
surface form: Old South Arabian languages
languageSubbranch South Semitic languages ⓘ
region Jawf region ⓘ
Marib ⓘ
Yemen ⓘ
scriptDirection right-to-left ⓘ
spokenIn Sabaean kingdom ⓘ
surface form: Sabaean Kingdom

Southern Arabia ⓘ
surface form: South Arabia

ancient Yemen ⓘ
studiedIn Semitic philology ⓘ
South Arabian epigraphy ⓘ
subclassOf Old South Arabian language ⓘ
timePeriod 1st millennium BCE ⓘ
early 1st millennium BCE ⓘ
usedBy Sabaeans ⓘ
usedFor inscriptions ⓘ
legal inscriptions ⓘ
monumental inscriptions ⓘ
religious inscriptions ⓘ
royal inscriptions ⓘ
usedIn Sabaean inscriptions ⓘ
writingMaterial metal ⓘ
rock ⓘ
stone ⓘ
wooden sticks ⓘ
writingSystem South Arabian script ⓘ
surface form: Ancient South Arabian script
writingSystemType abjad ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

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

Sabaic → hasDialect → Old Sabaic ⓘ
Middle Sabaic → follows → Old Sabaic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Early Sabaic