Dadanitic
| Dadanitic | |
|---|---|
| Region | Dadān (modern al-ʿUlā) |
| Era | mid-1st millennium BCE |
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Afroasiatic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
None (mis) |
| Glottolog | dada1236 |
Dadanitic is the dialect and script of the oasis of Dadān (modern al-ʿUlā) in northwestern Arabia, spoken probably some time during the second half of the first millennium BCE.
The grammar of Dadanitic is poorly understood, and while several of the following features exclude its belonging to the Arabic category, more work is required to establish its correct position in the Semitic family. Dadanitic exhibits a few forms which seem to have been lost at the Proto-Arabic stage:
The following prepositions are attested in the corpus of Dadanitic inscriptions:
Dadanitic has the same repertoire of 28 phonemes as Arabic and is the only ancient member of the South Semitic script family to use matres lectionis.
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