Hadhramautic | |
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Hadrami | |
Native to | Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia |
Era | 800 BC – 600 AD |
Afro-Asiatic
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Ancient South Arabian | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xhd |
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.