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312: 335:. The article /ʔam-/ is also found in other modern dialects of Arabic in the Arabian peninsula but is not attested amongst the so-called k-dialects of Yemen and Saudi Arabia unlike the article /ʔan-/. There is no attestation of this article in Sabaic outside of the possibility of the *hn- forms found in the Hymn of Qāniya; with the *h possibly representing the vowel /a/. Stein leaves open the question that perhaps due to the writing style the expression of definiteness was normally left out, and that the usage of /ʔam-/ in the oral poetry of speakers of various Yemeni Arabic dialects might ultimately be of ancient origin. 271:
with Qāniya and Ja 2353 being written in an area that historically used the Radmanite dialect of Sabaic and ZI 11 coming from Mārib, the historical center of the Sabaic language and Sabaean state. As noted by Alessandra Avanzini the problem with suggesting that the Himyarites had their own distinct language to begin with is that personal correspondences from that era of South Arabian history are still in Sabaic and that Robin's suggestion that Sabaic was supplanted by this supposed Himyarite language at this point are unsupported by this being that it is unlikely that personal correspondences would be in a dead language.
438:" that speakers of Himyaritic had (jad͡ʒurruːna fiː kalaːmihim), which is suggested to have been due to the absence of stress in Sayhadic or at least stress as was familiar to Arabic-speakers. The halting (muʕaqqad) described by Arab grammarians of Himyaritic and varieties of Arabic influenced by the Sayhadic languages that fall in this category may be an early attestation of the pausal glottalization found in many contemporary speech varieties in Southern Arabia, exemplified by the example from the pronunciation of the name " 250: 282:" as known to al-Hamdani in specific may have in reality been Arabized Sayhadic speech varieties or a group of varieties of Arabic that had a strong Sayhadic substrate. Restö (2000:115) goes as far as suggesting that even in the modern day a similar dynamic may exist for the so-called k-dialects of highland Yemen where " 270:
may in fact be the mixed speech of individuals who speak early varieties of Arabic with influence from spoken Sayhadic languages of the time. Stein points out that the few supposed examples of Himyaritic lay outside of the Himyarite heartland and instead in areas that are historically Sabaic speaking
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do not portray an objective description of the speech varieties and their features but instead gives a view into how language was taken into account in regards to the ranking at which al-Hamdani considered different peoples, social classes, and so forth. Much of what al-Hamdani notes as /ʃajʔun mina
299:) in some parts of the historic territory of the Himyarite confederacy may actually be describing any remnant speech communities using Sayhadic languages; albeit if they were Sabaic or any other it would not matter given that anything non-Arab and distinctive to the area at the time was simply " 257:
Part of the issue with defining Himyaritic is that the term itself is a catch-all term used by Arab grammarians after the Arabization of the Yemeni highlands and in reality could represent a number of speech varieties belonging to the Sayhadic branch of Central Semitic, meaning that ultimately
237:). Himyaritic is only known from statements of Arab scholars from the first centuries after the rise of Islam. According to their description it was unintelligible for speakers of Arabic hence why it had the derogatory designation of /tˤumtˤumaːnijja/; a term explained as ' 228:
Although the Himyar kingdom was an important power in South Arabia since the 1st century B.C., the knowledge of the supposed Himyaritic language is very limited if at all a distinct language, because all known Himyarite inscriptions were written in
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Imar Koutchoukali. 2015. Defining Ḥimyaritic: The linguistic landscape of southwest Arabia in the early Islamic period according to the testimony of the 9th century scholar al-Hamdani. (MA thesis, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden;
311: 262:" of said language could be misleading. As suggested by Peter Stein the language of the Himyarites may have been no different than that of neighboring Sabaic-speaking peoples and thus what is documented in works such as 338:
Furthermore, the suffixes of the perfect (suffix conjugation) in the first person singular and the second person began with /-k-/, while most varieties of Arabic have /-t-/. This feature is also found in Sayhadic,
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Watson, J. (2018-09-13). South Arabian and Arabic dialects. In Arabic Historical Dialectology: Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Approaches. : Oxford University Press. Retrieved 27 Feb. 2022, from
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It has been suggested that the languages of the Yemeni highlands were not outright replaced by Arabic but instead because of their close relation to it the speech varieties gradually became "
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RETSÖ, JAN. “‘KAŠKAŠA’, T-PASSIVES AND THE ANCIENT DIALECTS IN ARABIA.” Oriente Moderno, vol. 19 (80), no. 1, Istituto per l’Oriente C. A. Nallino, 2000, pp. 111–18,
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Vanhove, Martine. “NOTES ON THE ARABIC DIALECTAL AREA OF YĀFIʿ (YEMEN).” Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, vol. 25, Archaeopress, 1995, pp. 141–52,
295:) are instead irregularities in spoken Arabic that he could not attribute to Classical Arabic and his description of /ʔal-ħimjarijja ʔal-quħħa ʔal-mutaʔaqqida/ ( 809: 1134: 840: 1032: 1702: 225:. The precise position inside Semitic is unknown because of the limited knowledge of the language if it is indeed a distinct language from Sabaic. 2286: 1659: 1634: 1692: 1677: 1687: 639:' attributed to Himyaritic is recorded as /daw/, which is attested in Sabaic as *dʔ. It is seemingly preserved in southwest Yemen between 1722: 1717: 942: 449:
Stein (2008:208) lists various lexical items attested from Arabic grammatical sources and lists their various Sabaic equivalents:
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Peter Stein, The "Himyaritic" Language in pre-Islamic Yemen A Critical Re-evaluation, Semitica et Classica 1, 2008, 203-212.
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Avanzini, Alessandra. “By Land and By Sea: A History of South Arabia before Islam Recounted from Inscriptions.” (2016).
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Only a few supposed Himyaritic sentences are known. The following sentence was reportedly uttered in 654/5 A.D. in
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https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198701378.001.0001/oso-9780198701378-chapter-11
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Behnstedt, Peter. Dialect Atlas of North Yemen and Adjacent Areas. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 20 Jul. 2017.
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Playfair, Col (1867). "On the Himyaritic Inscriptions Lately brought to England from Southern Arabia".
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An inscribed bronze hand with a dedication in Himyaritic to the god Ta'lab, dated to the 2nd century AD
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dialects of southern Yemen; the following perfect verbal forms are from the dialect of Jabal Yazīdī:
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Christian Robin, Ḥimyaritic, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics 2, 2007, 256-261.
938: 913: 834: 332: 214: 210: 105: 88: 56: 1098: 647:(daʔ), and possibly in the speech of older speakers of the possible modern Sayhadic language 286:" and in reality they may be surviving Sayhadic speech varieties. Works such as al-Hamdani's 2257: 2212: 2198: 2031: 1990: 1953: 1858: 1844: 1810: 1780: 1761: 1556: 1530: 1505: 1481: 1455: 1448: 1388: 1371: 1343: 1319: 1211: 1045: 905: 863: 328: 230: 198: 63: 893: 2225: 2131: 2105: 2036: 1948: 1888: 1796: 1789: 1773: 1767: 1614: 1510: 1376: 1366: 957:
Ahmad Al-Jallad. 2013. Arabia and Areal Hybridity. Journal of Language Contact 6. 220-242.
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One of the features considered distinctive to even al-Hamdani was the supposed "
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The most prominent known feature of what was referred to as Himyaritic is the
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all other elements connecting them with other Arabic dialects are borrowings
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The Oceanic Languages, Their Grammatical Structure, Vocabulary, and Origin
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There is also a short song, which seems to show Arabic influence:
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Close-up of a Himyarite inscription left by King Dhu Nuwas near
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A. F. L. Beeston (1981), "Languages of Pre-Islamic Arabia",
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saw-1SG in-ART-dream that-gave.birth-1SG son-ACC of gold
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Index

Himyaritic
Yemen
Arabian Peninsula
Extinct
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Semitic
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Sayhadic
Sabaic
ISO 639-3
Linguist List
xsa-him
Glottolog
sout2466
Semitic language
ancient Yemen
Himyarite tribal confederacy
Semitic language
Old South Arabian
Sabaic
Sabaic

al-Hamdani

Najran
Saudi Arabia
definite article
Arabian Peninsula

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