Moabite language
Ancient Semitic language of Moab (Jordan) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Moabite language, also known as the Moabite dialect, is an extinct sub-language or dialect of the Canaanite languages, themselves a branch of Northwest Semitic languages, formerly spoken in the region described in the Bible as Moab (modern day central-western Jordan) in the early 1st millennium BC.
Moabite | |
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Region | Formerly spoken in northwestern Jordan |
Era | early half of 1st millennium BCE[1] |
Phoenician alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | obm |
obm | |
Glottolog | moab1234 |
The body of Canaanite epigraphy found in the region is described as Moabite; this is a very small corpus limited primarily to the Mesha Stele and a few seals.[2]
Moabite, together with the similarly poorly-attested Ammonite and Edomite, belonged to the dialect continuum of the Canaanite group of northwest Semitic languages, together with Hebrew and Phoenician.[3]