Extinct Old South Arabian language of eastern Yemen and Oman
Hadhramautic
Hadrami
Native to
Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia
Era
800 BC – 600 AD
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Semitic
South
Western
Old South Arabian
Hadhramautic
Writing system
Ancient South Arabian
Language codes
ISO 639-3
xhd
Linguist List
xhd
Glottolog
hadr1235
Kingdom of Hadramawt in 400 BC
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 s1mhrm), now Khor Rori in the Dhofar Governorate, Oman.
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