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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9" title="اللغة السبئية – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="اللغة السبئية" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idioma_sab%C3%A9u" title="Idioma sabéu – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Idioma sabéu" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B7%E0%A6%BE" title="সাবাইয়ান ভাষা – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="সাবাইয়ান ভাষা" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabeu" title="Sabeu – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Sabeu" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabej%C5%A1tina" title="Sabejština – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Sabejština" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idioma_sabeo" title="Idioma sabeo – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Idioma sabeo" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sab%C3%A9en_(langue)" title="Sabéen (langue) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Sabéen (langue)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_sabea" title="Lingua sabea – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Lingua sabea" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%A1%D5%A2%D5%A5%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%AC%D5%A5%D5%A6%D5%B8%D6%82" title="Սաբեյական լեզու – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Սաբեյական լեզու" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabejski_jezik" title="Sabejski jezik – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Sabejski jezik" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahasa_Saba" title="Bahasa Saba – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Bahasa Saba" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%91%D7%90%D7%99%D7%AA" title="שבאית – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="שבאית" 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title="Yemen">Yemen</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Region</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Arabian_Peninsula" title="Arabian Peninsula">Arabian Peninsula</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Extinct_language" title="Extinct language">Extinct</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">6th century</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><span class="wrap"><a href="/wiki/Language_family" title="Language family">Language family</a></span></div></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Afroasiatic_languages" title="Afroasiatic languages">Afro-Asiatic</a> <ul style="line-height:100%; 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List">Linguist List</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><code><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200101010101/http://multitree.org/codes/xsa">xsa</a></code></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><i><a href="/wiki/Glottolog" title="Glottolog">Glottolog</a></i></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><code><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/saba1279">saba1279</a></code></td></tr></tbody></table><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236303919">@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-has-images-with-white-backgrounds img{background:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-has-images-with-white-backgrounds img{background:white}}</style> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Panel_Almaqah_Louvre_DAO18.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Panel_Almaqah_Louvre_DAO18.jpg/220px-Panel_Almaqah_Louvre_DAO18.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="335" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Panel_Almaqah_Louvre_DAO18.jpg/330px-Panel_Almaqah_Louvre_DAO18.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Panel_Almaqah_Louvre_DAO18.jpg/440px-Panel_Almaqah_Louvre_DAO18.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2230" data-file-height="3400" /></a><figcaption>Votive stele with Sabaic inscription addressed to the main Sabaean deity <a href="/wiki/Almaqah" title="Almaqah">Almaqah</a>, mentioning five other South Arabian gods, two reigning sovereigns and two governors: "Ammī'amar son of Ma'dīkarib dedicated to Almaqah Ra'suhumū. With 'Athtar, with Almaqah, with dhāt-Ḥimyam, with dhât-Ba'dân, with Waddum, with Karib'īl, with Sumhu'alī, with 'Ammīrayam and with Yadhrahmalik." Alabaster, c. 700 BC, Yemen, area of Ma'rib (?).</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Sabaic</b>, sometimes referred to as <b>Sabaean</b>, was an <a href="/wiki/Old_South_Arabian" title="Old South Arabian">Old South Arabian</a> language that was spoken between c. 1000 BC and the 6th century AD by the <a href="/wiki/Sabaeans" title="Sabaeans">Sabaeans</a>. It was used as a written language by some other peoples of the ancient civilization of <a href="/wiki/South_Arabia" title="South Arabia">South Arabia</a>, including the <a href="/wiki/Himyarites" class="mw-redirect" title="Himyarites">Ḥimyarites</a>, Ḥashidites, Ṣirwāḥites, Humlanites, Ghaymānites, and Radmānites.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sabaic belongs to the South Arabian <a href="/wiki/Semitic_languages" title="Semitic languages">Semitic</a> branch of the <a href="/wiki/Afroasiatic_languages" title="Afroasiatic languages">Afroasiatic</a> language family.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKoganKorotayev1997_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKoganKorotayev1997-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sabaic is distinguished from the other members of the <a href="/wiki/Old_South_Arabian" title="Old South Arabian">Old South Arabian</a> group by its use of <i>h</i> to mark the <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_person" title="Grammatical person">third person</a> and as a <a href="/wiki/Causative" title="Causative">causative</a> prefix; all of the other languages use <i>s<sub>1</sub></i> in those cases. Therefore, Sabaic is called an <i>h</i>-language and the others <i>s</i>-languages.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Numerous other Sabaic inscriptions have also been found dating back to the <a href="/wiki/Sabean_colonization_of_Africa" title="Sabean colonization of Africa">Sabean colonization of Africa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Script">Script</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Script"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sabaic was written in the <a href="/wiki/South_Arabian_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="South Arabian alphabet">South Arabian alphabet</a>, and like <a href="/wiki/Hebrew" class="mw-redirect" title="Hebrew">Hebrew</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a> marked only consonants, the only indication of vowels being with <a href="/wiki/Mater_lectionis" title="Mater lectionis">matres lectionis</a>. For many years the only texts discovered were inscriptions in the formal Masnad script (Sabaic <i>ms<sub>3</sub>nd</i>), but in 1973 documents in another minuscule and cursive script were discovered, dating back to the second half of the 1st century BC; only a few of the latter have so far been published.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKoganKorotayev1997221_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKoganKorotayev1997221-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The South Arabic alphabet used in <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eritrea" title="Eritrea">Eritrea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Djibouti" title="Djibouti">Djibouti</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a> beginning in the 8th century BC, in all three locations, later evolved into the still in use <a href="/wiki/Ge%27ez_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Ge'ez alphabet">Ge'ez alphabet</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Ge%27ez_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ge'ez language">Ge'ez language</a> however is no longer considered to be a descendant of Sabaic or of <a href="/wiki/Old_South_Arabian" title="Old South Arabian">Old South Arabian</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and there is linguistic evidence that Semitic languages were concurrently in use, being spoken in Eritrea and Ethiopia as early as 2000 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sabaic is attested in some 1,040 dedicatory inscriptions, 850 building inscriptions, 200 legal texts, and 1300 short graffiti (containing only personal names).<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> No literary texts of any length have yet been brought to light. This paucity of source material and the limited forms of the inscriptions has made it difficult to get a complete picture of Sabaic grammar. Thousands of inscriptions written in a cursive script (called <i>Zabur</i>) incised into wooden sticks have been found and date to the Middle Sabaic period; these represent letters and legal documents and as such includes a much wider variety of grammatical forms. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Varieties">Varieties</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Varieties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li><b>Sabaic</b>: the language of the kingdom of <a href="/wiki/Sheba" title="Sheba">Saba</a> and later also of <a href="/wiki/Himyar" title="Himyar">Ḥimyar</a>; also documented in the kingdom of <a href="/wiki/D%CA%BFmt" title="Dʿmt">Da'amot</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> very well documented, c. 6000 inscriptions <ul><li><b>Old Sabaic</b>: mostly <a href="/wiki/Boustrophedon" title="Boustrophedon">boustrophedon</a> inscriptions from the 9th until the 8th century BC and including further texts in the next two centuries from <a href="/wiki/Ma%27rib" class="mw-redirect" title="Ma'rib">Ma'rib</a> and the Highlands.<sup id="cite_ref-Avanzini_2006_253–260_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Avanzini_2006_253–260-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Middle Sabaic</b>: 3rd century BC until the end of the 3rd century AD. The best-documented language.<sup id="cite_ref-Avanzini_2006_253–260_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Avanzini_2006_253–260-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The largest corpus of texts from this period comes from the <a href="/wiki/Awwam" class="mw-redirect" title="Awwam">Awwam</a> Temple (otherwise known as Maḥrem Bilqīs) in Ma'rib. <ul><li><b><a href="/w/index.php?title=Amir_(Arabia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Amir (Arabia) (page does not exist)">Amiritic</a></b>/<b>Ḥaramitic</b>: the language of the area to the north of Ma'īn<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Central Sabaic</b>: the language of the inscriptions from the Sabaean heartland</li> <li><b>South Sabaic</b>: the language of the inscriptions from <a href="/wiki/Radman,_Yemen" title="Radman, Yemen">Radmān</a> and <a href="/wiki/Himyar" title="Himyar">Ḥimyar</a></li> <li><b>"Pseudo-Sabaic"</b>: the literary language of Arabian tribes in <a href="/wiki/Najran" title="Najran">Najrān</a>, <a href="/wiki/Haram_(Yemen)" title="Haram (Yemen)">Ḥaram</a> and <a href="/wiki/Qaryat_al-Faw" title="Qaryat al-Faw">Qaryat al-Fāw</a></li></ul></li> <li><b>Late Sabaic</b>: 4th–6th centuries AD.<sup id="cite_ref-Avanzini_2006_253–260_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Avanzini_2006_253–260-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is the monotheistic period when Christianity and Judaism brought Aramaic and Greek influences.</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rabibum_Yakhdaf.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Rabibum_Yakhdaf.jpg/220px-Rabibum_Yakhdaf.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="348" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Rabibum_Yakhdaf.jpg/330px-Rabibum_Yakhdaf.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Rabibum_Yakhdaf.jpg/440px-Rabibum_Yakhdaf.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1934" data-file-height="3063" /></a><figcaption>Bronze plaque, written in Sabaic. A dedication from Rabibum Yakhdaf 𐩧𐩨𐩨𐩣 𐩡 𐩺𐩭𐩳𐩰</figcaption></figure> <p>In the Late Sabaic period the ancient names of the gods are no longer mentioned and only one deity <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ra%E1%B8%A5m%C4%81n%C4%81n&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Raḥmānān (page does not exist)">Raḥmānān</a> is referred to. The last known inscription in Sabaic dates from 554 or 559 AD.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The language's eventual extinction was brought about by the later rapid expansion of Islam, bringing with it Northern Arabic or <i><a href="/wiki/Mudhar" class="mw-redirect" title="Mudhar">Muḍarī</a></i>, which became the language of culture and writing, totally supplanting Sabaic. </p><p>The dialect used in the western Yemeni highlands, known as Central Sabaic, is very homogeneous and generally used as the language of the inscriptions. Divergent dialects are usually found in the area surrounding the Central Highlands, such as the important dialect of the city of <a href="/wiki/Haram_(Yemen)" title="Haram (Yemen)">Ḥaram</a> in the eastern al-<a href="/wiki/Al_Jawf_Governorate" title="Al Jawf Governorate">Jawf</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Inscriptions in the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Haramic&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Haramic (page does not exist)">Ḥaramic</a> dialect, which is heavily influenced by North Arabic, are also generally considered a form of Sabaic. The <a href="/wiki/Himyarites" class="mw-redirect" title="Himyarites">Himyarites</a>, whose <a href="/wiki/Himyaritic_language" title="Himyaritic language">spoken language</a> was Semitic but not South Arabic, used Sabaic as a written language.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Phonology">Phonology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Phonology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vowels">Vowels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Vowels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ancient_Blocks_With_Sabaean_Inscriptions,_Yeha,_Ethiopia_(3146498586).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Ancient_Blocks_With_Sabaean_Inscriptions%2C_Yeha%2C_Ethiopia_%283146498586%29.jpg/220px-Ancient_Blocks_With_Sabaean_Inscriptions%2C_Yeha%2C_Ethiopia_%283146498586%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="118" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Ancient_Blocks_With_Sabaean_Inscriptions%2C_Yeha%2C_Ethiopia_%283146498586%29.jpg/330px-Ancient_Blocks_With_Sabaean_Inscriptions%2C_Yeha%2C_Ethiopia_%283146498586%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Ancient_Blocks_With_Sabaean_Inscriptions%2C_Yeha%2C_Ethiopia_%283146498586%29.jpg/440px-Ancient_Blocks_With_Sabaean_Inscriptions%2C_Yeha%2C_Ethiopia_%283146498586%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2929" data-file-height="1566" /></a><figcaption>Ancient stone slabs with Sabaic inscriptions found at <a href="/wiki/Yeha" title="Yeha">Yeha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Since Sabaic is written in an <a href="/wiki/Abjad" title="Abjad">abjad</a> script leaving vowels unmarked, little can be said for certain about the vocalic system. However, based on other Semitic languages, it is generally presumed that it had at least the vowels <i>a</i>, <i>i</i>, and <i>u</i>, which would have occurred both short and long <i>ā</i>, <i>ī</i>, and <i>ū</i>. In Old Sabaic, the long vowels <i>ū</i> and <i>ī</i> are sometimes indicated using the letters for <i>w</i> and <i>y</i> as <a href="/wiki/Mater_lectionis" title="Mater lectionis">matres lectionis</a>. In the Old period this is used mainly in word-final position, but in Middle and Late Sabaic it also commonly occurs medially. Sabaic has no way of writing the long vowel <i>ā</i>, but in later inscriptions, in the Radmanite dialect the letter <i>h</i> is sometimes infixed in plurals where it is not etymologically expected: thus <i>bnhy</i> (sons of; Constructive State) instead of the usual <i>bny</i>; it is suspected that this <i>h</i> represents the vowel <i>ā</i>. Long vowels <i>ū</i> and <i>ī</i> certainly seem to be indicated in forms such as the personal pronouns <i>hmw</i> (them), the verbal form <i>ykwn</i> (also written without the glide <i>ykn</i>; he will be), and in <a href="/wiki/Enclitic" class="mw-redirect" title="Enclitic">enclitic</a> particles -<i>mw</i>, and -<i>my</i> probably used for emphasis.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Diphthongs">Diphthongs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Diphthongs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the Old Sabaic inscriptions the Proto-Semitic <a href="/wiki/Diphthongs" class="mw-redirect" title="Diphthongs">diphthongs</a> <i>aw</i> and <i>ay</i> seemed to have been retained, being written with the letters <i>w</i> and <i>y</i>; in the later stages the same words are increasingly found without these letters, which leads some scholars (such as Stein) to the conclusion that they had by then contracted to <i>ō</i> and <i>ē</i> (though <i>aw</i> → <i>ū</i> and <i>ay</i> → <i>ī</i> would also be possible) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Consonants">Consonants</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Consonants"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sabaic, like <a href="/wiki/Proto-Semitic" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-Semitic">Proto-Semitic</a>, contains three <a href="/wiki/Sibilant" title="Sibilant">sibilant</a> phonemes, represented by distinct letters; the exact phonetic nature of these sounds is still uncertain. In the early days of Sabaic studies, Old South Arabian was transcribed using Hebrew letters. The transcriptions of the alveolars or postvelar fricatives remained controversial; after a great deal of uncertainty in the initial period the lead was taken by the transcription chosen by Nikolaus Rhodokanakis and others for the <a href="/wiki/Corpus_Inscriptionum_Semiticarum" title="Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum">Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum</a> (<i>s</i>, <i>š</i>, and <i>ś</i>), until A. F. L. Beeston proposed replacing this with the representation with s followed by the subscripts 1–3. This latest version has largely taken over the English-speaking world, while in the German-speaking area, for example, the older transcription signs, which are also given in the table below, are more widespread. They were transcribed by Beeston as <i>s<sub>1</sub></i>, <i>s<sub>2</sub></i>, and <i>s<sub>3</sub></i>. Bearing in mind the latest reconstructions of the Proto-Semitic sibilants, we can postulate that <i>s<sub>1</sub></i> was probably pronounced as a simple [s]or [ʃ], <i>s<sub>2</sub></i> was probably a <a href="/wiki/Lateral_consonant" title="Lateral consonant">lateral</a> <a href="/wiki/Fricative" title="Fricative">fricative</a> [ɬ], and <i>s<sub>3</sub></i> may have been realized as an <a href="/wiki/Affricate" title="Affricate">affricate</a> [t͡s]. The difference between the three sounds is maintained throughout Old Sabaic and Middle Sabaic, but in the Late period <i>s<sub>1</sub></i> and <i>s<sub>3</sub></i> merge. The subscript n did not start appearing until after the Early Sabaic period.<sup id="cite_ref-Avanzini_2006_253–260_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Avanzini_2006_253–260-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Middle Sabaic Haramitic dialect often shows the change <i>s<sub>3</sub></i> > <i>s<sub>1</sub></i>, for example: <i>ˀks<sub>1</sub>wt</i> ("clothes"), normal Sabaic <i>ks<sub>3</sub>wy</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Andrey_Korotayev_1997,_Pg.223_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Andrey_Korotayev_1997,_Pg.223-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The exact nature of the emphatic consonants <i>q</i>, <i>ṣ</i>, <i>ṭ</i>, <i>ẓ</i> and <i>ḍ</i> also remains a matter for debate: were they pharyngealized as in Modern Arabic, or were they glottalized as in <a href="/wiki/Ethiopic" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethiopic">Ethiopic</a> (and reconstructed Proto-Semitic)? There are arguments to support both possibilities. In any case, beginning with Middle Sabaic the letters representing <i>ṣ</i> and <i>ẓ</i> are increasingly interchanged, which seems to indicate that they have fallen together as one phoneme. The existence of bilabial fricative <i>f</i> as a reflex of the Proto-Semitic <i>*p</i> is partly proved by Latin transcriptions of names. In late Sabaic <i>ḏ</i> and <i>z</i> also merge.In Old Sabaic the sound <i>n</i> only occasionally assimilates to a following consonant, but in the later periods this assimilation is the norm.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The minuscule <i>Zabūr</i> script does not seem to have a letter that represents the sound <i>ẓ</i>, and replaces it with <i>ḍ</i> instead; for example: <i>mfḍr</i> ("a measure of capacity"), written in the <i>Musnad</i> script as: <i>mfẓr</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Andrey_Korotayev_1997,_Pg.223_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Andrey_Korotayev_1997,_Pg.223-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sabaic_consonants">Sabaic consonants</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Sabaic consonants"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2"> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Bilabial_consonant" title="Bilabial consonant">Bilabial</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Dental_consonant" title="Dental consonant">Dental</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Alveolar_consonant" title="Alveolar consonant">Alveolar</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Postalveolar_consonant" title="Postalveolar consonant">Post-<br />alveolar</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Palatal_consonant" title="Palatal consonant">Palatal</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Velar_consonant" title="Velar consonant">Velar</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Uvular_consonant" title="Uvular consonant">Uvular</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Pharyngeal_consonant" title="Pharyngeal consonant">Pharyngeal</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Glottal_consonant" title="Glottal consonant">Glottal</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Plosive" title="Plosive">Plosive</a> </th> <th><span style="font-size:85%;">voiceless</span> </th> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_plosive" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiceless alveolar plosive">t</a></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_velar_plosive" title="Voiceless velar plosive">k</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_uvular_plosive" title="Voiceless uvular plosive">q</a></span>? </td> <td> </td> <td rowspan="3"><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Glottal_stop" title="Glottal stop">ʔ</a></span> <span class="nowrap">⟨ʾ⟩</span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><span style="font-size:85%;">voiced</span> </th> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_plosive" title="Voiced bilabial plosive">b</a></span> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_plosive" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced alveolar plosive">d</a></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_velar_plosive" title="Voiced velar plosive">ɡ</a></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><span style="font-size:85%;">emphatic</span> </th> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Glottalization" title="Glottalization">tˀ</a></span> <span class="nowrap">⟨ṭ⟩</span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Velar_ejective_stop" title="Velar ejective stop">kʼ</a></span> <span class="nowrap">⟨ḳ⟩</span>? </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Fricative" title="Fricative">Fricative</a> </th> <th><span style="font-size:85%;">voiceless</span> </th> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_labiodental_fricative" title="Voiceless labiodental fricative">f</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_dental_fricative" title="Voiceless dental fricative">θ</a></span> <span class="nowrap">⟨ṯ⟩</span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_fricative" title="Voiceless alveolar fricative">s</a></span> <span class="nowrap">⟨s<sub>3</sub> /s⟩</span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_postalveolar_fricative" title="Voiceless postalveolar fricative">ʃ</a></span> <span class="nowrap">⟨s<sub>1</sub> /š⟩</span> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_velar_fricative" title="Voiceless velar fricative">x</a></span> <span class="nowrap">⟨ḫ⟩</span> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_pharyngeal_fricative" title="Voiceless pharyngeal fricative">ħ</a></span> <span class="nowrap">⟨ḥ⟩</span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_glottal_fricative" title="Voiceless glottal fricative">h</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><span style="font-size:85%;">voiced</span> </th> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_dental_fricative" title="Voiced dental fricative">ð</a></span> <span class="nowrap">⟨ḏ⟩</span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_fricative" title="Voiced alveolar fricative">z</a></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_velar_fricative" title="Voiced velar fricative">ɣ</a></span> <span class="nowrap">⟨ġ⟩</span> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_pharyngeal_fricative" title="Voiced pharyngeal fricative">ʕ</a></span> <span class="nowrap">⟨ˀ⟩</span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><span style="font-size:85%;">emphatic</span> </th> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Glottalization" title="Glottalization">θˀ</a></span> <span class="nowrap">⟨ẓ⟩</span>? </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Glottalization" title="Glottalization">sˀ</a></span> <span class="nowrap">⟨ṣ⟩</span>? </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Nasal_consonant" title="Nasal consonant">Nasal</a> </th> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_nasal" title="Voiced bilabial nasal">m</a></span> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_nasal" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced alveolar nasal">n</a></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Lateral_consonant" title="Lateral consonant">Lateral</a> </th> <th><span style="font-size:85%;">voiceless</span> </th> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_lateral_fricative" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative">ɬ</a></span> <span class="nowrap">⟨s<sub>2</sub> /ś⟩</span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><span style="font-size:85%;">voiced</span> </th> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_lateral_approximant" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced alveolar lateral approximant">l</a></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><span style="font-size:85%;">emphatic</span> </th> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Glottalization" title="Glottalization">ɬˀ</a></span> <span class="nowrap">⟨ḍ⟩</span>? </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Rhotic_consonant" title="Rhotic consonant">Rhotic</a> </th> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_trill" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced alveolar trill">r</a></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Semivowel" title="Semivowel">Semivowel</a> </th> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_labial%E2%80%93velar_approximant" title="Voiced labial–velar approximant">w</a></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_palatal_approximant" title="Voiced palatal approximant">j</a></span> <span class="nowrap">⟨y⟩</span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Grammar">Grammar</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Grammar"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Personal_pronouns">Personal pronouns</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Personal pronouns"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As in other Semitic languages Sabaic had both independent pronouns and pronominal suffixes. The attested pronouns, along with suffixes from Qatabanian and Hadramautic are as follows: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th style="background:#ffdead;" colspan="2">  </th> <th style="background:#ffdead;" colspan="2">Pronominal suffixes </th> <th style="background:#ffdead;">Independent pronouns </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#ffdead;" colspan="2"> </th> <th style="background:#ffdead;">Sabaic </th> <th style="background:#ffdead;">Other languages </th> <th style="background:#ffdead;">Sabaic </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;"><a href="/wiki/Singular_number" class="mw-redirect" title="Singular number">Singular</a> </td> <td style="background:bisque;">First person </td> <td>-<i>n</i> </td> <td>  </td> <td><i>ʾn</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:bisque;">Second person m. </td> <td>-<i>k</i> </td> <td>-<i>k</i> </td> <td><i>ʾnt</i>; <i>ʾt</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:bisque;">Second person f. </td> <td>-<i>k</i> </td> <td>  </td> <td>  </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:bisque;">Third person <a href="/wiki/Masculine" class="mw-redirect" title="Masculine">m.</a> </td> <td>-<i>hw, h</i> </td> <td>-<i>s<sub>1</sub>w(w), s<sub>1</sub></i> </td> <td><i>h(w)ʾ</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:bisque;">3rd Person <a href="/wiki/Feminine" class="mw-redirect" title="Feminine">f.</a> </td> <td>-<i>h, hw</i> </td> <td>-<i>s<sub>1</sub></i>, -<i>s<sub>1</sub>yw</i> (Qataban.), -<i>ṯ(yw)</i>, -<i>s<sub>3</sub>(yw)</i> (Hadram.) </td> <td><i>hʾ</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3" style="background:#ffdead;"><a href="/wiki/Dual_(grammatical_number)" title="Dual (grammatical number)">Dual</a> </td> <td style="background:bisque;">2nd Person </td> <td>-<i>kmy</i> </td> <td><i>ʾtmy</i> </td> <td>  </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:bisque;">3rd Person com. </td> <td>-<i>hmy</i> </td> <td>-<i>s<sub>1</sub>mn</i> (min.), -<i>s<sub>1</sub>my</i> (Qataban.; Hadram.) </td> <td><i>hmy</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:bisque;">3rd Person m. </td> <td>  </td> <td>-<i>s<sub>1</sub>m(y)n</i> (Hadram.) </td> <td>  </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;"><a href="/wiki/Plural" title="Plural">Plural</a> </td> <td style="background:bisque;">1st Person </td> <td>-<i>n</i> </td> <td>  </td> <td>  </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:bisque;">2nd Person m. </td> <td>-<i>kmw</i> </td> <td>  </td> <td><i>ʾntmw</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:bisque;">2nd Person f. </td> <td>  </td> <td>  </td> <td>  </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:bisque;">3. Person <a href="/wiki/Masculine" class="mw-redirect" title="Masculine">m.</a> </td> <td>-<i>hm(w)</i> </td> <td>-<i>s<sub>1</sub>m</i> </td> <td><i>hmw</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:bisque;">3. Person <a href="/wiki/Feminine" class="mw-redirect" title="Feminine">f.</a> </td> <td>-<i>hn</i> </td> <td>-<i>s<sub>1</sub>n</i> </td> <td><i>hn</i> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>No independent pronouns have been identified in any of the other South Arabian languages. First- and second-person independent pronouns are rarely attested in the monumental inscription, but possibly for cultural reasons; the likelihood was that these texts were neither composed nor written by the one who commissioned them: hence they use third-person pronouns to refer to the one who is paying for the building and dedication or whatever. The use of the pronouns in Sabaic corresponds to that in other Semitic languages. The pronominal suffixes are added to verbs and prepositions to denote the object; thus: <i>qtl-hmw</i> "he killed them"; <i>ḫmr-hmy t'lb</i> "Ta'lab poured for them both"; when the suffixes are added to nouns they indicate possession: '<i>bd-hw</i> "his slave").The independent pronouns serve as the subject of nominal and verbal sentences: <i>mr' 't</i> "you are the Lord" (a nominal sentence); <i>hmw f-ḥmdw</i> "they thanked" (a verbal sentence). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Nouns">Nouns</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Nouns"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Case,_number_and_gender"><span id="Case.2C_number_and_gender"></span>Case, number and gender</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Case, number and gender"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Old South Arabian nouns fall into two genders: masculine and feminine. The feminine is usually indicated in the singular by the ending –<i>t</i> : <i>bʿl</i> "husband" (m.), <i>bʿlt</i> "wife" (f.), <i>hgr</i> "city" (m.), <i>fnwt</i> "canal" (f.). Sabaic nouns have forms for singular, dual and plural. The singular is formed without changing the stem, the plural can however be formed in a number of ways even in the very same word: </p> <ul><li>Inner ("Broken") Plurals: as in Classical Arabic they are frequent. <ul><li><i>ʾ</i>-<a href="/wiki/Prefix" title="Prefix">Prefix</a>: <i>ʾbyt</i> "houses" from <i>byt</i> "house"</li> <li><i>t</i>-<a href="/wiki/Suffix" title="Suffix">Suffix</a>: especially frequent in words having the <i>m</i>-prefix: <i>mḥfdt</i> "towers" from <i>mḥfd</i> "tower".</li> <li>Combinations: for example <i>ʾ</i>–prefix and <i>t</i>-suffix: <i>ʾḫrft</i> "years" from <i>ḫrf</i> "year", <i>ʾbytt</i> "houses" from <i>byt</i> "house".</li> <li>without any external grammatical sign: <i>fnw</i> "canals" from <i>fnwt</i> (f.) "canal".</li> <li>w-/y-<a href="/wiki/Infix" title="Infix">Infix</a>: <i>ḫrwf</i> / <i>ḫryf</i> / <i>ḫryft</i> "years" from <i>ḫrf</i> "year".</li> <li>Reduplicational plurals are rarely attested in Sabaic: <i>ʾlʾlt</i> "gods" from<i>ʾl</i> "god".</li></ul></li> <li>External ("Sound") plurals: in the masculine the ending differs according to the grammatical state (see below); in the feminine the ending is -<i>(h)t</i>, which probably represents *-āt ; this plural is rare and seems to be restricted to a few nouns.</li></ul> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Dual_(grammatical_number)" title="Dual (grammatical number)">dual</a> is already beginning to disappear in Old Sabaic; its endings vary according to the grammatical state: <i>ḫrf-n</i> "two years" (indeterminate state) from <i>ḫrf</i> "year". </p><p>Sabaic almost certainly had a case system formed by vocalic endings, but since vowels were involved they are not recognizable in the writings; nevertheless a few traces have been retained in the written texts, above all in the <a href="/wiki/Construct_state" title="Construct state">construct state</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Grammatical_states">Grammatical states</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Grammatical states"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As in other Semitic languages Sabaic has a few grammatical states, which are indicated by various different endings according to the gender and the number. At the same time external plurals and duals have their own endings for grammatical state, while inner plurals are treated like singulars. Apart from the <a href="/wiki/Construct_state" title="Construct state">construct state</a> known in other Semitic languages, there is also an indeterminate state and a determinate state, the functions of which are explained below. The following are the detailed state endings: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2"> </th> <th>Constr. state </th> <th>Indet. state </th> <th>Det. state </th></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="3">Masculine </th> <th>Singular </th> <td>-∅ </td> <td>-<i>m</i> </td> <td>-<i>n</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Dual </th> <td>-∅ / -<i>y</i> </td> <td>-<i>n</i> </td> <td>-<i>nhn</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th>External plural </th> <td>-<i>w</i> / -<i>y</i> </td> <td>-<i>n</i> </td> <td>-<i>nhn</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="3">Feminine </th> <th>Singular </th> <td>-<i>t</i> </td> <td>-<i>tm</i> </td> <td>-<i>tn</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Dual </th> <td>-<i>ty</i> </td> <td>-<i>tn</i> </td> <td>-<i>tnhn</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th>External plural </th> <td>-<i>t</i> </td> <td>-<i>tm</i> </td> <td>-<i>tn</i> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The three grammatical states have distinct syntactical and semantic functions: </p> <ul><li>The Status indeterminatus: marks an indefinite, unspecified thing : <i>ṣlm-m</i> "any statue".</li> <li>The Status determinatus: marks a specific noun: <i>ṣlm-n</i> "the statue".</li> <li>The Status constructus: is introduced if the noun is bound to a genitive, a personal suffix or — contrary to other Semitic languages — with a relative sentence: <ul><li>With a pronominal suffix: <i>ʿbd-hw</i> "his slave".</li> <li>With a genitive noun: (Ḥaḑramite) <i>gnʾhy myfʾt</i> "both walls of Maifa'at", <i>mlky s<sub>1</sub>bʾ</i> "both kings of Saba"</li> <li>With a relative sentence: <i>kl <sup>1</sup> s<sub>1</sub>bʾt <sup>2</sup> w-ḍbyʾ <sup>3</sup> w-tqdmt</i> <sup>4</sup> s<sub>1</sub>bʾy<sup>5</sup> w-ḍbʾ<sup>6</sup> tqdmn<sup>7</sup> mrʾy-hmw<sup>8</sup> "all<sup>1</sup> expeditions<sup>2</sup>, battles<sup>3</sup> and raids<sup>4</sup>, their two lords <sup>8</sup> conducted<sup>5</sup>, struck<sup>6</sup> and led<sup>7</sup>" (the nouns in the construct state are italicized here).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Verbs">Verbs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Verbs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Conjugation">Conjugation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Conjugation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As in other West Semitic languages Sabaic distinguishes between two types of <a href="/wiki/Finite_verb" title="Finite verb">finite verb</a> forms: the perfect which is conjugated with suffixes and the imperfect which is conjugated with both prefixes and suffixes. In the imperfect two forms can be distinguished: a short form and a form constructed using the <i>n</i> (long form esp. the <i>n-imperfect</i>), which in any case is missing in Qatabānian and Ḥaḍramite. In actual use it is hard to distinguish the two imperfect forms from each other.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The conjugation of the perfect and imperfect may be summarized as follows (the active and the passive are not distinguished in their consonantal written form; the verbal example is <i>fʿl</i> "to do"): </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr style="background:#c0f070;"> <th colspan="2" rowspan="2">  </th> <th rowspan="2">Perfect </th> <th colspan="2">Imperfect </th></tr> <tr style="background:#ffdead;"> <td>Short form </td> <td>Long form </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="5">Singular </th> <td>1. P. </td> <td><i>fʿl-k</i> (?) </td> <td>  </td> <td>  </td></tr> <tr> <td>2. P. m. </td> <td><i>fʿl-k</i> </td> <td>  </td> <td>  </td></tr> <tr> <td>2. P. f. </td> <td><i>fʿl-k</i> </td> <td><i>t</i>-<i>fʿl</i> </td> <td><i>t</i>-<i>fʿl-n</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>3. P. m. </td> <td><i>fʿl</i> </td> <td><i>y</i>-<i>fʿl</i> </td> <td><i>y</i>-<i>fʿl</i>-<i>n</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>3. P. f. </td> <td><i>fʿl</i>-<i>t</i> </td> <td><i>t</i>-<i>fʿl</i> </td> <td><i>t</i>-<i>fʿl-n</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2">Dual </th> <td>3. P. m. </td> <td><i>fʿl</i>(-<i>y</i>) </td> <td><i>y</i>-<i>fʿl</i>-<i>y</i> </td> <td><i>y</i>-<i>fʿl</i>-<i>nn</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>3. P. f. </td> <td><i>fʿl</i>-<i>ty</i> </td> <td><i>t</i>-<i>fʿl</i>-<i>y</i> </td> <td><i>t</i>-<i>fʿl</i>-<i>nn</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="3">Plural </th> <td>2. P. m. </td> <td><i>fʿl</i>-<i>kmw</i> </td> <td>  </td> <td><i>t</i>-<i>fʿl</i>-<i>nn</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>3. P. m. </td> <td><i>fʿl</i>-<i>w</i> </td> <td><i>y</i>-<i>fʿl</i>-<i>w</i> </td> <td><i>y</i>-<i>fʿl</i>-<i>nn</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>3. P. f. </td> <td><i>fʿl</i>-<i>y</i>, <i>fʿl</i>-<i>n</i> (?) </td> <td><i>t</i>-<i>fʿl</i>-<i>n</i>(?) </td> <td><i>t</i>-<i>fʿl</i>-<i>nn</i>(?) </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Perfect">Perfect</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Perfect"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The perfect is mainly used to describe something that took place in the past, only before <a href="/wiki/Conditional_sentence" title="Conditional sentence">conditional phrases</a> and in relative phrases with a conditional connotation does it describe an action in the present, as in Classical Arabic. For example: <i> <b>w-s<sub>3</sub>ḫly</b> Hlkʾmr w-ḥmʿṯt</i> "And Hlkʾmr and ḥmʿṯt have pleaded guilty (dual)". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Imperfect">Imperfect</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Imperfect"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The imperfect usually expresses that something has occurred at the same time as an event previously mentioned, or it may simply express the present or future. Four <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_Mood" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammatical Mood">moods</a> can be distinguished: </p> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Realis_mood" title="Realis mood">Indicative</a>: in Sabaic this has no special marker, though it has in some of the other languages: <i><b>b-y-s<sub>2</sub>ṭ</b></i> "he trades" (Qatabānian). With the meaning of the perfect: <i>w-<b>y-qr</b> zydʾl b-wrḫh ḥtḥr</i> "Zaid'il died in the month of <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Calendar" class="mw-redirect" title="Egyptian Calendar">Hathor</a>" (Minaean).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irrealis_mood" title="Irrealis mood">Precative</a> is formed with <i>l-</i> and expresses wishes: <i><b>w-l-y-ḫmrn-hw</b> ʾlmqhw</i> "may <a href="/wiki/Almaqah" title="Almaqah">Almaqahu</a> grant him".</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irrealis_mood" title="Irrealis mood">Jussive</a> is also formed with <i>l-</i> and stands for an indirect order: <i><b>l-yʾt</b></i> "so should it come".</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vetitive&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vetitive (page does not exist)">Vetitive</a> is formed with the negative <i>ʾl". It serves to express negative wishes: </i>w-<b>ʾl y-hwfd</b> ʿlbm<i> "and no ʿilb-trees may be planted here“.</i></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Imperative">Imperative</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Imperative"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Imperative_mood" title="Imperative mood">imperative</a> is found in texts written in the <i>zabūr</i> script on wooden sticks, and has the form <i>fˁl(-n)</i>. For example: <i>w-'nt f-s<sub>3</sub>ḫln</i> ("and you (sg.) look after"). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Derived_stems">Derived stems</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Derived stems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By changing the consonantal roots of verbs they can produce various derivational forms, which change their meaning. In Sabaic (and other Old South Arabian languages) six such stems are attested. Examples: </p> <ul><li><i>qny</i> "to receive" > <i>hqny</i> "to sacrifice; to donate"</li> <li><i>qwm</i> "to decree" > <i>hqm</i> "to decree", <i>tqwmw</i> "to bear witness"</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Syntax">Syntax</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Syntax"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Position_of_clauses">Position of clauses</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Position of clauses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The arrangement of clauses is not consistent in Sabaic. The first clause in an inscription always has the order (particle - ) subject – predicate (SV), the other main clauses of an inscription are introduced by <i>w</i>- "and" and always have – like subordinate clauses – the order predicate – subject (VS). At the same time the Predicate may be introduced by <i>f</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Examples: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>At the beginning of an inscription; SVO </caption> <tbody><tr> <td><i>s<sub>1</sub>ʿdʾl w-rʾbʾl</i> </td> <td><i>s<sub>3</sub>lʾ</i> </td> <td><i>w-sqny</i> </td> <td><i>ʿṯtr</i> </td> <td><i>kl</i> </td> <td><i>ġwṯ</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>S<sub>1</sub>ʿdʾl and Rʾbʾl </td> <td>they have offered up (3rd person plural perfect) </td> <td>and have consecrated (3rd person plural perfect) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Athtar" class="mw-redirect" title="Athtar">Athtar</a> </td> <td>complete </td> <td>repair </td></tr> <tr> <td>Subject </td> <td colspan="2">Predicate </td> <td>Indirect object </td> <td colspan="2">Direct object </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="6">"S<sub>1</sub>ʿdʾl and Rʾbʾl have offered up and consecrated all the repairs to <a href="/wiki/Athtar" class="mw-redirect" title="Athtar">Athtar</a>". </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Introduced by <i>w</i>; SVO </caption> <tbody><tr> <td><i>w-ʾws<sub>1</sub>ʾl</i> </td> <td><i>f-ḥmd</i> </td> <td><i>mqm</i> </td> <td><i>ʾlmqh</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>and Awsil </td> <td>and he thanked (3rd-person sg. perfect) </td> <td>Does (stat. constr.) </td> <td>Almaqah </td></tr> <tr> <td>"and" – subject </td> <td>"and" – predicate </td> <td colspan="2">Object </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4">"And Awsil thanked the power of <a href="/wiki/Almaqah" title="Almaqah">Almaqah</a>" </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Subordinate_clauses">Subordinate clauses</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Subordinate clauses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sabaic is equipped with a number of means to form subordinate clauses using various conjunctions: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption><a href="/wiki/Independent_clause" title="Independent clause">Main clause</a> with ensuing <a href="/w/index.php?title=Object_clause&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Object clause (page does not exist)">object clause</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Main clause </th> <th colspan="6">Subordinate clause </th></tr> <tr> <td><i> w-y-s<sub>1</sub>mʿ-w</i> </td> <td><i> k-nblw</i> </td> <td><i> hmw</i> </td> <td><i>ʾgrn</i> </td> <td><i> b-ʿbr</i> </td> <td><i>ʾḥzb ḥbs<sub>2</sub>t</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"and" – 3rd p. pl. imperfect </td> <td>Conjunction – 3rd p. pl. perfect </td> <td>Attribute </td> <td>Subject </td> <td>Preposition </td> <td>Prepositional object </td></tr> <tr> <td>And they heard </td> <td>that they sent </td> <td>these </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Najran" title="Najran">Najranites</a> </td> <td>to </td> <td>Abyssinian tribes </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="6">And they heard, that these <a href="/wiki/Najran" title="Najran">Najranites</a> had sent a delegation to the Abyssinian tribes. </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable"> <caption><a href="/wiki/Conditional_sentence" title="Conditional sentence">Conditional clause</a> with <a href="/wiki/Conditional_sentence" title="Conditional sentence">apodosis</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Subordinate clause </th> <th colspan="2">Subordinate clause </th></tr> <tr> <td><i>w-hmy</i> </td> <td><i>hfnk</i> </td> <td><i>f-tʿlmn</i> </td> <td><i>b-hmy</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"And" – conjunction </td> <td>2. person sg. perfect </td> <td>"Then" – imperative </td> <td>Pronominal phrase </td></tr> <tr> <td>And if </td> <td>you sent </td> <td>and sign </td> <td>on it </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="6">And if you send (it), sign it. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Relative_clauses">Relative clauses</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Relative clauses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Sabaic, relative clauses are marked by a <a href="/wiki/Relativiser" class="mw-redirect" title="Relativiser">Relativiser</a> like <i>ḏ-</i>, <i>ʾl</i>, <i>mn-</i>; in free relative clauses this marking is obligatory. Unlike other Semitic languages in Sabaic <a href="/w/index.php?title=Resumptive_pronouns&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Resumptive pronouns (page does not exist)">resumptive pronouns</a> are only rarely found. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Free Relative clause after <i>mn-mw</i> </caption> <tbody><tr> <td><i>mn-mw</i> </td> <td><i>ḏ-</i> </td> <td><i>-y-s<sub>2</sub>ʾm-n</i> </td> <td><i>ʿbdm</i> </td> <td><i>f-ʾw</i> </td> <td><i>ʾmtm</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"who" – enclitic </td> <td>Relativiser </td> <td>3rd-person singular n-imperfect </td> <td>Object </td> <td>"and/ or" </td> <td>Object </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">who </td> <td>he buys </td> <td>a male slave </td> <td>or </td> <td>a female slave </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="5">Whoever buys a male or female slave [...] </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Attributive relative clause (Qataban.) with nominal predicate </caption> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Main clause </th> <th colspan="4">Relative clause </th></tr> <tr> <td><i>ḏn </i> </td> <td><i> mḥfdn yḥḏr</i> </td> <td><i>ḏm</i> </td> <td><i>b-s<sub>2</sub>hd</i> </td> <td><i>gnʾ</i> </td> <td><i>hgr-sm</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Demonstrative pronoun </td> <td>Subject </td> <td>Relativiser </td> <td>Preposition </td> <td>Prepositional object </td> <td>Possessor </td></tr> <tr> <td>this </td> <td>the tower yḥḏr </td> <td>which </td> <td>opposite </td> <td>wall </td> <td>her city </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="6">this tower yḥḏr, which stands opposite the walls of her city (is located). </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Attributive relative clause with a prepositional predicate and resumptive </caption> <tbody><tr> <td><i>ʾl-n</i> </td> <td><i>ḏ-</i> </td> <td><i>-l-</i> </td> <td><i>-hw</i> </td> <td><i>smyn w-ʾrḍn</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>God – <i>Nunation</i> </td> <td>Relativiser </td> <td>Preposition </td> <td>Object (resumptive) </td> <td>Subject </td></tr> <tr> <td>the God </td> <td>which </td> <td>for </td> <td>him </td> <td>heaven and earth </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="5">God, for Whom the heavens and the earth are = God, to Whom the heaven and the earth belong </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Vocabulary">Vocabulary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Vocabulary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although the Sabaic vocabulary is found in relatively diverse types of inscriptions (an example being that the south Semitic tribes derive their word <i>wtb</i> meaning "to sit" from the northwest tribe's word <i>yashab/wtb</i> meaning "to jump"),<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> nevertheless it stands relatively isolated in the Semitic realm, something that makes it more difficult to analyze. Even given the existence of closely related languages such as Ge'ez and Classical Arabic, only part of the Sabaic vocabulary has proved able to be interpreted; a not inconsiderable part must be deduced from the context and some words remain incomprehensible. On the other hand, many words from agriculture and irrigation technology have been retrieved from the works of Yemeni scholars of the Middle Ages and partially also from the modern Yemeni dialects. Foreign loanwords are rare in Sabaic, a few Greek and Aramaic words are found in the <a href="/wiki/Rahmanism" class="mw-redirect" title="Rahmanism">Rahmanistic</a>, Christian and Jewish period (5th–7th centuries AD) for example: <i>qls1-n</i> from the Greek ἐκκλησία "church", which still survives in the Arabic <i>al-Qillīs</i> referring to the church built by <a href="/wiki/Abraha" title="Abraha">Abrahah</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sana%27a" class="mw-redirect" title="Sana'a">Sana'a</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Old_South_Arabian" title="Old South Arabian">Old South Arabian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_South_Arabian_script" title="Ancient South Arabian script">Ancient South Arabian script</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Himyaritic_language" title="Himyaritic language">Himyaritic language</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ge%27ez" class="mw-redirect" title="Ge'ez">Ge'ez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Aksum" title="Kingdom of Aksum">Kingdom of Aksum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sabaeans" title="Sabaeans">Sabaeans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Himyarite_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Himyarite Kingdom">Himyarite Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheba" title="Sheba">Sheba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eduard_Glaser" title="Eduard Glaser">Eduard Glaser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Rathjens" title="Carl Rathjens">Carl Rathjens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Hal%C3%A9vy" title="Joseph Halévy">Joseph Halévy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_W._M%C3%BCller" title="Walter W. Müller">Walter W. Müller</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFKorotayev1995" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Andrey_Korotayev" title="Andrey Korotayev">Korotayev, Andrey</a> (1995). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.academia.edu/32711023"><i>Ancient Yemen</i></a>. Oxford: <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-922237-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-922237-1"><bdi>0-19-922237-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ancient+Yemen&rft.place=Oxford&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1995&rft.isbn=0-19-922237-1&rft.aulast=Korotayev&rft.aufirst=Andrey&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.academia.edu%2F32711023&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASabaic" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEKoganKorotayev1997-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKoganKorotayev1997_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFKoganKorotayev1997">Kogan & Korotayev 1997</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-autogenerated1-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated1_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated1_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNebesStein2008" class="citation book cs1">Nebes, Norbert; Stein, Peter (2008). 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Cambridge: <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University_Press" title="Cambridge University Press">Cambridge University Press</a>. pp. 145–178. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2FCBO9780511486890">10.1017/CBO9780511486890</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780511486890" title="Special:BookSources/9780511486890"><bdi>9780511486890</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Ancient+South+Arabian&rft.btitle=The+Ancient+Languages+of+Syria-Palestine+and+Arabia&rft.place=Cambridge&rft.pages=145-178&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2008&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1017%2FCBO9780511486890&rft.isbn=9780511486890&rft.aulast=Nebes&rft.aufirst=Norbert&rft.au=Stein%2C+Peter&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fe-learning.tsu.ge%2Fpluginfile.php%2F5868%2Fmod_resource%2Fcontent%2F0%2Fdzveli_armosavluri_enebi_-ugarituli_punikuri_arameuli_ebrauli_arabuli.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASabaic" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=22gaTnnU-F0C&dq=sabean+yeha&pg=PA88"><i>The Athenaeum</i></a>. J. Lection. 1894. p. 88.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Athenaeum&rft.pages=88&rft.pub=J.+Lection&rft.date=1894&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D22gaTnnU-F0C%26dq%3Dsabean%2Byeha%26pg%3DPA88&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASabaic" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRadnerMoellerPotts2023" class="citation book cs1">Radner, Karen; Moeller, Nadine; Potts, Daniel T. (2023-04-07). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=TPGxEAAAQBAJ&dq=sabean+yeha&pg=PA352"><i>The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume V: the Age of Persia</i></a>. Oxford University Press. p. 353. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-068766-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-068766-3"><bdi>978-0-19-068766-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Oxford+History+of+the+Ancient+Near+East%3A+Volume+V%3A+the+Age+of+Persia&rft.pages=353&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2023-04-07&rft.isbn=978-0-19-068766-3&rft.aulast=Radner&rft.aufirst=Karen&rft.au=Moeller%2C+Nadine&rft.au=Potts%2C+Daniel+T.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DTPGxEAAAQBAJ%26dq%3Dsabean%2Byeha%26pg%3DPA352&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASabaic" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEKoganKorotayev1997221-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKoganKorotayev1997221_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFKoganKorotayev1997">Kogan & Korotayev 1997</a>, p. 221.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Weninger, Stefan. "Ge'ez" in <i>Encyclopaedia Aethiopica</i>: D-Ha, p.732.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stuart, Munro-Hay (1991). <i>Aksum: An African Civilization of Late Antiquity</i> page 57. Edinburgh: University Press.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ReferenceA-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">N. Nebes, P. Stein: Ancient South Arabian, in: Roger D. Woodard (Hrsg.): <i>The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages</i>. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A. Avanzini: <i>Le iscrizioni sudarabiche d'Etiopia: un esempio di culture e lingue a contatto.</i> In: <i>Oriens antiquus</i>, 26 (1987), Seite 201–221</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Avanzini_2006_253–260-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Avanzini_2006_253–260_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Avanzini_2006_253–260_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Avanzini_2006_253–260_11-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Avanzini_2006_253–260_11-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAvanzini2006" class="citation journal cs1">Avanzini, A (April–June 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/509855185">"A Fresh Look at Sabaic"</a>. <i>Journal of the American Oriental Society</i>. <b>126</b> (2): 253–260<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2013-09-20</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+the+American+Oriental+Society&rft.atitle=A+Fresh+Look+at+Sabaic&rft.volume=126&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=253-260&rft.date=2006-04%2F2006-06&rft.aulast=Avanzini&rft.aufirst=A&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fconnection.ebscohost.com%2Fc%2Farticles%2F509855185&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASabaic" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStein2007" class="citation journal cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Stein, Peter (2007). "Materialien zur sabäischen Dialektologie: Das Problem des amiritischen ("haramitischen") Dialektes" [Materials on Sabaean Dialectology: The Problem of the Amirite ("Haramite") Dialect]. <i>Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft</i> (in German). <b>157</b>: 13–47.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Zeitschrift+der+Deutschen+Morgenl%C3%A4ndischen+Gesellschaft&rft.atitle=Materialien+zur+sab%C3%A4ischen+Dialektologie%3A+Das+Problem+des+amiritischen+%28%22haramitischen%22%29+Dialektes&rft.volume=157&rft.pages=13-47&rft.date=2007&rft.aulast=Stein&rft.aufirst=Peter&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASabaic" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rebecca Hasselbach, Old South Arabian in Languages from the World of the Bible, edited by Holger Gzella</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Norbert Nebes and Peter Stein, op. cit</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rebecca Hasselbach, in <i>Languages from the World of the Bible</i> (ed. by Holger Gzella), pg. 170</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Andrey_Korotayev_1997,_Pg.223-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Andrey_Korotayev_1997,_Pg.223_16-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Andrey_Korotayev_1997,_Pg.223_16-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFKoganKorotayev1997">Kogan & Korotayev (1997)</a>, p. 223</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hierzu: P. Stein: <i>Gibt es Kasus im Sabäischen?</i>, in: N. Nebes (Hrg.): <i>Neue Beiträge zur Semitistik. Erstes Arbeitstreffen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Semitistik in der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft vom 11. bis 13. September 2000</i>, S. 201–222</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Details see: Norbert Nebes: <i>Verwendung und Funktion der Präfixkonjugation im Sabäischen</i>, in: Norbert Nebes (Hrsg.): Arabia Felix. Beiträge zur Sprache und Kultur des vorislamischen Arabien. Festschrift Walter W. Müller zum 60. Geburtstag. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, Pp. 191–211</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Norbert Nebes: <i>Die Konstruktionen mit /FA-/ im Altsüdarabischen.</i> (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, Nr. 40) Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1995</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMendenhall2006" class="citation journal cs1">Mendenhall, George (2006). "Arabic in Semitic Linguistic History". <i>Journal of the American Oriental Society</i>. <b>126</b> (1): 17–25.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+the+American+Oriental+Society&rft.atitle=Arabic+in+Semitic+Linguistic+History&rft.volume=126&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=17-25&rft.date=2006&rft.aulast=Mendenhall&rft.aufirst=George&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASabaic" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The usual modern Arabic word for "church" is <i>kanīsah</i>, from the same origin.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabaic&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>A. F. L. Beeston: <i>Sabaic Grammar</i>, Manchester 1984 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9507885-2-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-9507885-2-X">0-9507885-2-X</a>.</li> <li>A.F.L. Beeston, M.A. Ghul, W.W. Müller, J. Ryckmans: <i>Sabaic Dictionary</i> / Dictionnaire sabéen /al-Muʿdscham as-Sabaʾī (Englisch-Französisch-Arabisch) Louvain-la-Neuve, 1982 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/2-8017-0194-7" title="Special:BookSources/2-8017-0194-7">2-8017-0194-7</a></li> <li>Joan Copeland Biella: <i>Dictionary of Old South Arabic. Sabaean dialect</i>. Eisenbrauns, 1982 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-57506-919-9" title="Special:BookSources/1-57506-919-9">1-57506-919-9</a></li> <li>Maria Höfner: <i>Altsüdarabische Grammatik</i> (Porta linguarum Orientalium, Band 24) Leipzig, 1943</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKoganKorotayev1997" class="citation book cs1">Kogan, Leonid; <a href="/wiki/Andrey_Korotayev" title="Andrey Korotayev">Korotayev, Andrey</a> (1997). "Sayhadic Languages (Epigraphic South Arabian)". <i>Semitic Languages</i>. London: Routledge. pp. 157–183.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Sayhadic+Languages+%28Epigraphic+South+Arabian%29&rft.btitle=Semitic+Languages&rft.place=London&rft.pages=157-183&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=1997&rft.aulast=Kogan&rft.aufirst=Leonid&rft.au=Korotayev%2C+Andrey&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASabaic" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Anne Multhoff: <i>Die sabäischen Inschriften aus Marib. Katalog, Übersetzung und Kommentar</i> [The Sabaean inscriptions from Marib. Catalogue, translation and commentary] (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel 9). Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden (Westfalen) 2021, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-86757-130-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-86757-130-2">978-3-86757-130-2</a>.</li> <li>N. Nebes, P. Stein: "Ancient South Arabian", in: Roger D. Woodard (Hrsg.): <i>The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages</i> (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-56256-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-521-56256-2">0-521-56256-2</a> S. 454–487 (grammatical sketch with Bibliography).</li> <li>Jacques Ryckmans, Walter W. Müller, Yusuf M. Abdallah: Textes du Yémen antique inscrits sur bois [Texts from ancient Yemen inscribed on wood] (Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain 43). Institut Orientaliste, Louvain 1994. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/2-87723-104-6" title="Special:BookSources/2-87723-104-6">2-87723-104-6</a></li> <li>Peter Stein, <i>Untersuchungen zur Phonologie und Morphologie des Sabäischen</i> [Studes on the phonology and morphology of Sabaean] (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel 3). Rahden 2003, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-89646-683-6" title="Special:BookSources/3-89646-683-6">3-89646-683-6</a>.</li> <li>Peter Stein: Die altsüdarabischen Minuskelinschriften auf Holzstäbchen aus der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München 1: Die Inschriften der mittel- und spätsabäischen Periode [The Old South Arabian minuscule inscriptions on wooden sticks from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich 1: The inscriptions of the Middle and Late Sabaean period] (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel 5). Tübingen u.a. 2010. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-8030-2200-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-8030-2200-4">978-3-8030-2200-4</a></li> <li>Peter Stein: Die altsüdarabischen Minuskelinschriften auf Holzstäbchen aus der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München. Band 2: Die altsabäischen und minäaischen Inschriften [The Old South Arabian minuscule inscriptions on wooden sticks from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich 1: The Old Sabaean and Minaean inscriptions] (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel. Band 10). Wiesbaden, 2023. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-7520-0704-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-7520-0704-6">978-3-7520-0704-6</a></li> <li>Peter Stein, <i>Lehrbuch der sabäischen Sprache</i> [Sabaean language textbook]. 2 volumes. 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