Moabite

Extinct Canaanite dialect

Languagedead language ancient language dialectQ36385

Subclass of: Canaanite
, Semitic
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1.Stated in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
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Script: Phoenician script

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The Moabite language, also known as the Moabite dialect, is an extinct sub-language or dialect of the Canaanite languages, themselves a branch of Northwest Semitic languages, formerly spoken in the region described in the Bible as Moab in the early 1st millennium BC.

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2 linked to Moabite in Wikidata

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18 statements · 39% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Country: Moab
Dissolved: 4th century BCE

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8 identifiers linking Moabite across the web's reference databases

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