Liḥyānite

See also: liḥyānite

English

Proper noun

Liḥyānite

1. Alternative spelling of Lihyanite
   • 1959, Walker John, “The Liḥyānite inscription on South Arabian coins”, in Rivista degli studi orientali, volume 34, number Fasc. 1/2, page 77 seqq.:
   • 2001, Edward Lipiński, Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; 80), 2nd edition, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 275:

     The determinate state of the noun is marked in the “Canaanite” languages of the first millennium B.C., in Pre-Islamic North Arabian, in Arabic, in Modern South Arabian languages, and in Tigre by a prefixed definite article. Its earliest attested form is ha-, used in Hebrew, Phoenician, Ammonite, Moabite, Edomite, Liḥyānite, Ṣafaitic, Thamūdic, and in the Modern South Arabian languages where the definite article a- / ä- is prefixed to definite nouns the initial element of which is a voiced or glottalized consonant […]

   • 2013, Edward Lipiński, “From Semitic to Afro-Asiatic”, in Keith Allan, editor, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 263:

     Today Arabic must be regarded as one of the important world languages. Its earli­est written forms are provided by pre-Islamic North and East Arabian inscriptions using a variant of the South Arabian monumental script. The attested dialects are Liḥyānite or Dedanite in Hedjāz, Thamūdic in north-eastern Hedjāz, Safaitic in southern Syria and Jor­dan, Hasaean in the oasis of al-Hāsa’, and Nabataean Arabic, represented by a few in­scriptions in Aramaic script.