Qatabanian language

Qatabanian language

language
name=Qatabanian
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
states=Yemen
speakers=Extinct
fam2=Semitic
fam3=South
fam4=Western
fam5=Old South Arabian
iso2=sem|iso3=xqt

One of the four known dialects of Old South Arabian, Qatabian was spoken in Yemen between 100 BC and 600 AD.

References

http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/LLDescription.cfm?code=xqt


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