South Arabian

South Arabian

The term South Arabian covers South Semitic languages spoken on the southern Arabian peninsula, i.e. those not found in Africa:

*Old South Arabian, a group of extinct Western South Semitic languages
*Modern South Arabian or Eastern South Semitic.


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