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Lihyanic, n.|liːˈjɑːnɪk|
Also Lihyanite, Lihyanian; Lihyani |liːˈjɑːniː|.
[f. Arab. liḥyān + -ic.]
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.
1911Encycl. 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. 1932W. L. Graff Lang. 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. 1936Encycl. Islam III. 27/1 The T̲ẖamūdaean graffiti..are a development (later or parallel) of the Liḥyānī script. 1937F. V. Winnett Study of Lihyanite & Thamudic Inscriptions 51 The earlier supplanting of Dedanite by Lihyanite points to a Lihyanite conquest of Dedan (al-‘Ula) in the early 5th century b.c. 1939L. H. Gray Foundations of 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. 1948D. Diringer Alphabet ii. ii. 227 The Lihyanite inscriptions can be divided into two groups. 1968Encycl. Brit. I. 663/2 The four South Semitic alphabets..are known as Sabaean, Lihyanic, Thamudenic and Safahitic. |