South Arabian

Adjective

Meaning

Of or relating to South Arabia.

A group of Semitic languages spoken in Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Eritrea.

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Examples

Many of these "foreign merchants" were transient visitors, men of South Arabian and Persian Gulf ports, who migrated in and out of Cambay with the rhythm of the monsoons. Source: Internet

Archaeologists are eager, not only to document the characteristics of South Arabian civilisation, but also to try to explain its genesis. Source: Internet

He was the first European to visit Tarim (1929) since Leo Hirsch in 1893, the first to come within sight of Shabwa (1932), and the first to visit Sei’ar country and to see and photograph the South Arabian oryx (1933). Source: Internet

These languages differ greatly from both the surrounding Arabic dialects and from the (unrelated but previously thought to be related) languages of the Old South Arabian inscriptions. Source: Internet

In the southwest, various Central Semitic languages both belonging to and outside of the Ancient South Arabian family (e.g. Southern Thamudic) were spoken. Source: Internet

Most of the attested languages have merged a number of the reconstructed original fricatives, though South Arabian retains all fourteen (and has added a fifteenth from *p > f). Source: Internet

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