Infobox language name Qatabanian familycolor Afro Asiatic states Yemen speakers Extinct fam2 Semitic languages Semitic fam3 South Semitic South fam4 Western fam5 Old South Arabian iso3 xqt One of the four better documented languages of the Old South Arabian or Sayhadic sub group, Qatabanian or Qatabanic was used in Yemen between 800 BC and 200 AD, mainly but not exclusively in the Kingdom of Qataban . References Leonid Kogan and Andrey Korotayev Sayhadic Languages Epigraphic South Arabian . Semitic Languages . London Routledge, 1997, p. 157 183. http linguistlist.org forms langs LLDescription.cfm?code xqt Linguist List Image Map of Aksum and South Arabia ca. 230 AD.jpg right 300px thumb Late Kingdom of Qataban light blue in the 2nd century CE. Category Old South Arabian languages Category Languages of Yemen AfroAsiatic lang stub ar ca Qatabanita hu Katab ni nyelv no Qatabansk ... more details
XQT may refer to The IATA location identifier for Lichfield Trent Valley railway station Lichfield Trent Valley railway station Lichfield UK The ISO 639 3 ISO 639 3 language code for Qatabanian language Qatabanian A List of file formats alphabetical X file extension for Waffle bbs Waffle executable files or SuperCalc Macro computer science macro sheets. disambig ... more details
for the language Qatabanian language Image Map of Aksum and South Arabia ca. 230 AD.jpg right 300px thumb Late Kingdom of Qataban light blue not long before its fall in the 2nd century CE. Image qataban lion bronze.jpg thumb Bronze lion with a rider made by the Qatabanians circa 75 50 BCE. Qataban Arabic , was one of the ancient Yemeni kingdoms. Its heartland was located in the Baihan valley. Like some other Southern Arabian kingdoms it gained great wealth from the trade of frankincense and myrrh incense which were burned at altars. The capital of Qataban was named Timna and was located on the trade route which passed through the other kingdoms of Hadramaut , Sheba and Ma in . The chief deity of the Qatabanians was Amm, or Uncle and the people called themselves the children of Amm . It was the most prominent Yemeni kingdom in the 2nd half of the 1st millennium BCE, when its ruler held the title of the South Arabian hegemon, MKRB. Bibliography Alessandro de Maigret. Arabia Felix , translated Rebecca Thompson. London Stacey International, 2002. ISBN 1 900988 07 0 Andrey Korotayev . Ancient Yemen . Oxford Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 0 19 922237 1. Andrey Korotayev . Pre Islamic Yemen . Wiesbaden Harrassowitz Verlag, 1996. ISBN 3 447 03679 6. Andrey Korotayev . http cliodynamics.ru index.php?option com content&task view&id 318&Itemid 70 Socio Political Conflict in the Qatabanian Kingdom? A re interpretation of the Qatabanic inscription R 3566 Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 27 1997 141 158 . Category History of Yemen Category Geography of Yemen Category Arabian Peninsula ar ca Qataban de Qataban es Qataban fa fr Qataban hr Kataban it Qataban lt Katabanas pt Qataban sh Kataban fi Qataban ... more details
Infobox language family name Old South Arabian region Yemen familycolor Afro Asiatic fam2 Semitic fam3 South Semitic South fam4 Western iso2 script South Arabian alphabet File Southarabian somali.gif thumb right 200px Transliteration key for South Arabian to several different scripts. Old South Arabian or Epigraphic South Arabian , or Sayhadic is the term used to describe four extinct, closely related languages spoken in the far southern portion of the Arabian Peninsula . There were a number of other Sayhadic languages e.g. Awsanic , of which very little evidence survived, however. All those languages were distinct from Classical Arabic , which developed among Arab tribes of the regions of Najd and Hijaz , and most Semitic languages. The four main Old South Arabian languages were Sabaean language Sabaic , Minaean language Minaeic or Madhabic , Qatabanian language Qatabanic , and Hadramautic language Hadramitic . According to Alice Faber based on Hetzron s work ref cite book last Faber first Alice title The Semitic Languages year 1997 publisher Routledge location London isbn 0 415 05767 1 edition 1st ed. editor Robert Hetzron page 7 chapter Genetic Subgrouping of the Semitic Languages ref , together with Ethiopian Semitic languages such as the contemporary Ge ez language and the Modern South Arabian languages not descended from Old South Arabian but from a sister language , they formed the western branch of the South Semitic languages . Sabaean language Minaean language Qatabanian language Hadramautic language Old South Arabian had its own writing system, the South Arabian alphabet , concurrently used for proto Ge ez in the Kingdom of D mt , ultimately sharing a common origin with the other Semitic abjads , the Proto Sinaitic alphabet . The arrival of Islam virtually disintegrated Old South Arabian, as Classical Arabic became the lingua franca of the region. Today, Old South Arabian is extinct, only existing in a few ancient texts and inscriptions. It has, however, c ... more details
Infobox Writing system name Epigraphic South Arabian type Abjad languages Ge ez language Ge ez , Old South Arabian fam1 Proto Sinaitic alphabet Proto Sinaitic time ca. 9th c. BC to 7th c. AD children Ge ez alphabet Ge ez sisters Phoenician alphabet unicode http www.unicode.org charts PDF U10A60.pdf U 1BC0&ndash U 10A7F iso15924 Sarb The ancient Yemeni alphabet also known as musnad branched from the Proto Sinaitic alphabet in about the 9th century BC . It was used for writing the Yemeni Old South Arabic languages of the Sabaean language Sabaean , Qatabanian , Hadramautic language Hadramautic , Minaean language Minaean , Himyarite language Himyarite , and proto Ge ez language Ge ez or proto Ethiopian Semitic languages Ethiosemitic in D mt . The earliest inscriptions in the alphabet date to the 9th century BC in Akkele Guzay , Eritrea ref Fattovich, Rodolfo, Akk l Guzay in von Uhlig, Siegbert, ed. Encyclopaedia Aethiopica A C . Weissbaden Otto Harrassowitz KG, 2003, p.169. ref and in the 8th century BC , found in Babylonia and in Yemen . There are no vowels, instead using the mater lectionis to mark them. Its mature form was reached around 500 BC, and its use continued until the 7th century AD, including Old North Arabian inscriptions in variants of the alphabet, when it was displaced by the Arabic alphabet . In Ethiopia it evolved later into the Ge ez alphabet , which, with added symbols throughout the centuries, has been used to write Amharic language Amharic , Tigrinya language Tigrinya and Tigre language Tigre , as well as other languages including various Semitic languages Semitic , Cushitic languages Cushitic , and Nilo Saharan languages . Zabur script Zabur is the name of the cursive form of the South Arabian script that was used by the ancient Yemenis Sabaeans in addition to their monumental script, or musnad see, e.g., Ryckmans, J., M ller, W. W., and Abdallah, Yu., Textes du Y men Antique inscrits sur bois . Louvain la Neuve , Belgium, 1994 Publicat ... more details
3 style I H Karakhanid language xqa anchor xqa I H Karakhanid ISO 639 3 style I A Qatabanian language xqt anchor xqt I A Qatabanian Krah language xra anchor xra I L Krah Karaboro languages xrb ... more details
1995 pp. 83 98 . ref and to suggest an adequate translation of the largest Qatabanian language Qatabanic inscription, R 3566. ref Socio Political Conflict in the Qatabanian Kingdom? A preliminary ... more details
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