Everything about The Moabite Language totally explained
The
Moabite language is an extinct
Hebrew Canaanite dialect, spoken in
Moab (modern-day northwestern
Jordan) in the early first millennium BC. Most of our knowledge about Moabite comes from the
Mesha Stele, as well as the
El-Kerak Stela
; this is sufficient to show that it was extremely similar to
Biblical Hebrew, despite a few differences. The main differences noted in the admittedly short text are: a plural in
-în rather than
-îm (eg
mlkn "kings" for Biblical Hebrew
məlākîm), like
Aramaic and
Arabic; retention of the feminine ending
-at which Biblical Hebrew reduces to
-āh (for example
qryt "town", Biblical Hebrew
qiryāh) but retains in the construct state nominal form (for example
qiryát yisrael "town of Israel"); and retention of a verb form with infixed
-t-, also found in
Arabic and
Akkadian (
w-’ltḥm "I began to fight", from the root
lḥm.)
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