Liḥyānite

liḥyānite English Proper noun en Lihyanite. en The Liḥyānite inscription on South Arabian coins Walker John Rivista degli studi orientali 77 seqq. 34 Fasc. 1/2 1959 275 The determinate state of the noun is marked in the “Canaanite” languages of the first millennium B.C., in Pre-Islamic North Arabian, in Arabic, in Modern South Arabian languages, and in Tigre by a prefixed definite article. Its earliest attested form is ha-, used in Hebrew, Phoenician, Ammonite, Moabite, Edomite, Liḥyānite, Ṣafaitic, Thamūdic, and in the Modern South Arabian languages where the definite article a- / ä- is prefixed to definite nouns the initial element of which is a voiced or glottalized consonant […] en Edward Lipiński Oxford University Press From Semitic to Afro-Asiatic The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics Keith Allan 2013 263 9780199585847 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199585847.001.0001 Today Arabic must be regarded as one of the important world languages. Its earli­est written forms are provided by pre-Islamic North and East Arabian inscriptions using a variant of the South Arabian monumental script. The attested dialects are Liḥyānite or Dedanite in Hedjāz, Thamūdic in north-eastern Hedjāz, Safaitic in southern Syria and Jor­dan, Hasaean in the oasis of al-Hāsa’, and Nabataean Arabic, represented by a few in­scriptions in Aramaic script.