Late Sabaic
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Late Sabaic is the final historical stage of the Sabaic language of ancient South Arabia, known from inscriptions dating to the last centuries before the Islamic era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Late Sabaic canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3252502 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Late Sabaic Context triple: [Sabaic, hasDialect, Late Sabaic]
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Middle Babylonian
Middle Babylonian is a historical dialect of the Akkadian language used in Mesopotamia during the late second millennium BCE, notable from literary, administrative, and scholarly texts.
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Kassite period
The Kassite period was a phase in Mesopotamian history (c. 16th–12th centuries BCE) when the Kassite dynasty ruled Babylonia, overseeing a stable, long-lasting regime marked by administrative continuity, religious patronage, and extensive cultural and diplomatic ties across the Near East.
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Samarra period
The Samarra period was a mid-9th-century phase of the Abbasid Caliphate marked by the relocation of the capital to Samarra and characterized by heightened military influence, political instability, and cultural development.
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Tannaitic period
The Tannaitic period was the early era of Rabbinic Judaism, roughly from the 1st to early 3rd centuries CE, during which the Mishnah and related foundational rabbinic teachings were developed and compiled.
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Middle Assyrian
Middle Assyrian is a historical dialect of the Akkadian language used in Assyria during the late second millennium BCE, notable from administrative, legal, and literary cuneiform texts.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Late Sabaic Target entity description: Late Sabaic is the final historical stage of the Sabaic language of ancient South Arabia, known from inscriptions dating to the last centuries before the Islamic era.
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A.
Middle Babylonian
Middle Babylonian is a historical dialect of the Akkadian language used in Mesopotamia during the late second millennium BCE, notable from literary, administrative, and scholarly texts.
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B.
Kassite period
The Kassite period was a phase in Mesopotamian history (c. 16th–12th centuries BCE) when the Kassite dynasty ruled Babylonia, overseeing a stable, long-lasting regime marked by administrative continuity, religious patronage, and extensive cultural and diplomatic ties across the Near East.
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C.
Samarra period
The Samarra period was a mid-9th-century phase of the Abbasid Caliphate marked by the relocation of the capital to Samarra and characterized by heightened military influence, political instability, and cultural development.
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D.
Tannaitic period
The Tannaitic period was the early era of Rabbinic Judaism, roughly from the 1st to early 3rd centuries CE, during which the Mishnah and related foundational rabbinic teachings were developed and compiled.
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E.
Middle Assyrian
Middle Assyrian is a historical dialect of the Akkadian language used in Assyria during the late second millennium BCE, notable from administrative, legal, and literary cuneiform texts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sabaic language variety
ⓘ
historical language stage ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Himyar
ⓘ
surface form:
Himyarite period
Sabaean kingdom ⓘ |
| attestedIn |
epigraphic texts
ⓘ
inscriptions ⓘ |
| chronologicalRelation | final stage of Sabaic ⓘ |
| chronologicalStatus | latest attested form of Sabaic ⓘ |
| domain | epigraphy ⓘ |
| evidenceType |
monumental inscriptions
ⓘ
rock inscriptions ⓘ stone inscriptions ⓘ |
| extinctionReason | replacement by Arabic ⓘ |
| follows | Classical Sabaic ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
consonantal writing without vowels
ⓘ
epigraphic transmission only ⓘ late phonological and morphological developments of Sabaic ⓘ |
| ISOStatus | no separate ISO 639-3 code (substage of Sabaic) ⓘ |
| languageBranch |
South Semitic languages
ⓘ
surface form:
South Semitic
|
| languageFamily |
Afroasiatic languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Afroasiatic
Semitic ⓘ |
| languageGroup | Old South Arabian ⓘ |
| linguisticRelation | closely related to other Old South Arabian languages ⓘ |
| partOf | Sabaic language ⓘ |
| precedes | Islamic-era Arabic in South Arabia ⓘ |
| region |
Sabaean cultural area
ⓘ
Yemeni Highlands ⓘ
surface form:
South Arabian highlands
|
| scriptType | consonantal abjad ⓘ |
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
Semitic linguistics
ⓘ
South Arabian epigraphy ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf |
Afroasiatic languages
ⓘ
Old South Arabian languages ⓘ Semitic languages ⓘ South Semitic languages ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
last centuries before the Islamic era
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late pre-Islamic period ⓘ |
| usageContext |
building inscriptions
ⓘ
dedicatory inscriptions ⓘ religious inscriptions ⓘ royal inscriptions ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Sabaean population
ⓘ
Old South Arabian ⓘ
surface form:
South Arabian elites
|
| usedIn |
Yemen
ⓘ
ancient South Arabia ⓘ |
| writingDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Ancient South Arabian script ⓘ |
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Subject: Late Sabaic Description of subject: Late Sabaic is the final historical stage of the Sabaic language of ancient South Arabia, known from inscriptions dating to the last centuries before the Islamic era.
Referenced by (2)
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