Edomite language

Edomite
Edomite
Region	southwestern Jordan and southern Israel.
Era	early 1st millennium BCE
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Northwest Semitic Canaanite Edomite; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xdm
Linguist List	xdm
Glottolog	(insufficiently attested or not a distinct language); 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 BCE. 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 BCE, 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.

According to Glottolog, referencing Huehnergard & Rubin (2011), Edomite was not a distinct language from Hebrew but a Hebraic dialect.^[2]

References

^ Edomite at MultiTree on the Linguist List
^ Cite error: The named reference Glottolog2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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[linglist-1] Edomite at MultiTree on the Linguist List

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