Ḥaḍramautic or Ḥaḍramitic was the easternmost of the four known languages of the Old South Arabian subgroup of the Semitic languages . It was used in the Kingdom of Hadhramaut and also the area round the Hadhramite capital of Shabwa , in what is now Yemen . The Hadramites also controlled the trade in frankincense through their important trading post of Sumhuram (Hadramautic s 1 mhrm ), now Khor Rori in the Dhofar Governorate , Oman.
5-695: The ancient city of Shabwa ( Ḥaḑramitic : 𐩦𐩨𐩥𐩩 , romanized: ŠBWT , Šabwat ; Arabic : شَبْوَة , romanized : Šabwa ) was the capital of the Kingdom of Hadhramaut at the South Arabian region of the Arabian Peninsula . The ruins of the city are located in the north of modern Shabwah Governorate of the Republic of Yemen . Pliny the Elder and Strabo refer to
10-708: A stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Hadramautic language Almost the entire body of evidence for the ancient Ḥaḑramautic language comes from inscriptions written in the monumental Ancient South Arabian script , consisting of 29 letters, and deriving from the Proto-Sinaitic script . The sounds of the language were essentially the same as those of Sabaic . Noteworthy characteristics of Ḥaḑramautic include its tendency, especially in inscriptions from Wadi Ḥaḍhramaut, to represent Old South Arabian ṯ as s 3 : thus we find s 2 ls 3 ("three"; cf. Sabaean s 2 lṯ .) There are also instances where ṯ
15-456: Is written for an older form s 3 ; e.g. Ḥaḑramautic mṯnad ("inscription"), which is msnd in the rest of Old South Arabian. Potsherds with Ancient South Arabian letters on them, found in Raybūn , the old Ḥaḍramitic capital, have been radiocarbon dated to the 12th century BC. The language was certainly in use from 800 BC but in the fourth century AD, the Kingdom of Hadhramaut was conquered by
20-410: The Ḥimyarites , who used Sabaic as an official language, and after then there are no more records in Ḥaḍramautic. During the course of the language’s history there appeared particular phonetic changes, such as the change from ˤ to ˀ, from ẓ to ṣ, from ṯ to s 3 . As in other Semitic languages n can be assimilated to a following consonant, compare ʾnfs 1 "souls" > ʾfs 1 In Ḥaḑramautic
25-509: The city as Sabota , formerly a royal city with multiple local temples. Shabwa was first settled in 13th century BC, and was destroyed by the Himyarites at the end of the 3rd century AD. Within the walls of the city are the remains of: 15°22′08″N 47°01′25″E / 15.3689°N 47.0236°E / 15.3689; 47.0236 This article about a location in Yemen is
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