Edomite language
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Edomite was a Northwest Semitic Canaanite language spoken by the Edomites in Idumea in the 2nd and 1st millennium BC. It is extinct and known only from an extremely small corpus, attested in a scant n
Ostracon written in the Edomite language dated to the 6th century BC
Aramaic alphabet
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The ancient Aramaic alphabet was used to write the Aramaic languages spoken by ancient Aramean pre-Christian peoples throughout the Fertile Crescent. It was also adopted by other peoples as their own
Edomite language
…the singular absolute state. In early times, it seems to have been written with a Phoenician alphabet, but by the 6th century BC, it had adopted the Aramaic alphabet. Meanwhile, Aramaic or Arabic features such as whb ("gave") and tgr/tcr ("merchant") entered the language, with whb becoming especially common in proper…
Aramaic inscription from Tayma, containing a dedicatory inscription to the god Salm
The Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription, a Greek and Aramaic inscription by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka at Kandahar, Afghanistan, 3rd century BC
Aramaic inscription of Taxila, Pakistan probably by the emperor Ashoka around 260 BCE