Himyaritic

alternative Himjaritic · alternative Himyaric · alternative Himjaric · alternative Ḥimyaritic · alternative ḥimyaritic

1. obsoleteOld South Arabian.First known use to be expected till ca. 1950
2. historiographyAny language or dialect belonging to Himyarites and reported from an ancient Arabic perspective as peculiar.

   If the traditional Arab and Islamic scholars are to be believed, the Ḥimyaritic language was incomprehensible to a speaker of Arabic.

   2007, Christian Robin, edited by Versteegh, Kees, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 257b

3. An imagined Semitic language belonging to the Himyarites who however generally wrote Sabaean.

comparative more Himyaritic · superlative most Himyaritic · alternative Himjaritic · alternative Himyaric · alternative Himjaric · alternative Ḥimyaritic · alternative ḥimyaritic

1. Related or belonging to the aforementioned language or language group.