Lihyanicn.
/liːˈjɑːnɪk/ The name of an ancient Semitic language known only from north Arabian inscriptions of the 2nd and 1st centuries b.c. Also (all forms), as adj.
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Lihyanic1911
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 626/1 A more commendable proposal is to call the inscriptions Lihyānī, since the tribe of Lihyān is sometimes mentioned in them... Other brief inscriptions..have been discovered... Their writing is a somewhat later form of the Lihyānī, and the dialect..seems to be very similar to Lihyānī.
1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. xi. 402 From North Arabia we have a certain number of inscriptions dating from the 2d or 1st century b.c. and revealing a language, called Lihyanite, closely related to Arabic proper.
1936 Encycl. Islam III. 27/1 The Ṯẖamūdaean graffiti..are a development (later or parallel) of the Liḥyānī script.
1937 F. V. Winnett Study Lihyanite & Thamudic Inscr. 51 The earlier supplanting of Dedanite by Lihyanite points to a Lihyanite conquest of Dedan (al-ʽUla) in the early 5th century b.c.
1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 363 North Arabic is first recorded in Liḥyānian and Thamūdian inscriptions (the former between the second or first century b.c. and the fourth or sixth a.d...) and in Ṣafāitic graffiti.
1948 D. Diringer Alphabet ii. ii. 227 The Lihyanite inscriptions can be divided into two groups.
1968 Encycl. Brit. I. 663/2 The four South Semitic alphabets..are known as Sabaean, Lihyanic, Thamudenic and Safahitic.
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