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xdmEdomite  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Edomite language was a Canaanite language spoken by the Edomites in southwestern Jordan in the first millennium BC. It is known only from a very small corpus. In early times, it seems to have been written with a Canaanite alphabet; like the Moabite language, it retained feminine -t. 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.

Entry terms

  • Edomite language

ISO 639-3 code

  • xdm

Notation

  • xdm

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URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/xdm

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