Edomite language

Edomite
Region	southwestern Jordan and southern Israel.
Era	early 1st millennium BC
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Northwest Semitic Canaanite Edomite
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xdm
Linguist List	xdm
Glottolog	edom1234

Edomite was a Canaanite language, very similar to Hebrew, spoken by the Edomites in southwestern Jordan and parts of Israel in the 1st millennium BC. It is known only from a very small corpus. Like Moabite, but unlike Hebrew, it retained the feminine ending -t in the singular absolute state. In early times, it seems to have been written with a Phoenician alphabet. However, in the 6th century BC, it adopted the Aramaic alphabet. Meanwhile, Aramaic or Arabic features such as whb ("gave") and tgr ("merchant") entered the language, with whb becoming especially common in proper names.