Langenesis

Afro-Asiatic family

Sabaic (Sabaean)

c. 1,000 BCE – 600 CE Extinct

Sabaic (Sabaean) (c. 1,000 BCE – 600 CE) is an extinct Afro-Asiatic language. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Proto-Semitic → Proto-West Semitic → Sabaic (Sabaean).

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ISO 639-3
xsa
Glottocode
saba1279

The best-attested Old South Arabian language, of the kingdom of Saba in Yemen, written in the musnad script. Old South Arabian is placed in South Semitic or in Central Semitic depending on the author; it is not the ancestor of the Modern South Arabian languages.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Afro-Asiaticc. 10,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE
  2. Proto-Semiticc. 4,000 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  3. Proto-West Semiticc. 3,000 BCE – 2,000 BCE
  4. Sabaic (Sabaean)c. 1,000 BCE – 600 CE

Sister languages 2

Also descended from Proto-West Semitic.

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