Social:Edomite language
| Edomite | |
|---|---|
| Region | southwestern Jordan and southern Israel. |
| Era | early 1st millennium BC[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xdm |
xdm | |
| Glottolog | edom1234[2] |
Edomite was a Northwest Semitic Canaanite language, very similar to Hebrew, Ekronite, Ammonite, Phoenician, Amorite and Sutean, spoken by the Edomites in southwestern Jordan and parts of Israel in the 2nd and 1st millennium BC. It is extinct and known only from a very small corpus.[3] It is attested in a single late 7th or early 6th century BCE letter, discovered in Horvat Uza.[4][5]
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, by 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.[3] Like many other Canaanite languages, Edomite features a prefixed definite article derived from the presentative particle (h-ʔkl ‘the food’).
Examples
| Edomite | Translation |
|---|---|
| ʔṁṙ • lmlk • ʔmr • lblbl • | (Thus) said Lumaluk: Say to Blbl |
| hṡlm • ʔt • whbrktk | Are you well? I bless you |
| lqws • wʕt • tn • ʔt hʔkl | by Qos. And now give the food (grain) |
| ʔṡr • ʕmd • ʔhʔmh [ ] | that Ahima / o ... |
| whrm ʕ[z]ʔl • ʕl mż [bḥ (?) …] | And may U[z]iel lift [it] up upon (the altar?) |
| [ ] ḥmr • hʔkl | [lest] the food become leavened (?) |
References
- ↑ Edomite at MultiTree on the Linguist List
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Edomite". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/edom1234.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Edomite language - Academic Kids". https://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Edomite_language.
- ↑ Wilson-Wright, Aren M. (2019). "The Canaanite Languages". The Semitic Languages. London, Routledge: 509-532. https://sites.utexas.edu/scripts/files/2020/10/2019-AWW-The-Canaanite-Languages.pdf.
- ↑ Vanderhooft, David S. (1995). "The Edomite Dialect and Script: A Review of Evidence". pp. 142.
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