Minaean language

Minaean language
Minaean
Spoken in Yemen
Native speakers Extinct
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3 inm

The Minaean (or, to be exact, Madhabic) language was an Old South Arabian ("Sayhadic") language spoken in Yemen between 1200 BC and AD 100. The main area of its use may be localized in al-Jawf part of North-East Yemen, first of all in the Wadi Madhab. Most of the texts in this language were composed by the Minaeans, but the other civil-temple communities of the Wadi Madhab (Nashshan, Kaminahu, Haram, and Inabba') also used this language.

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