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Meaning of Himyaritic | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ˌhɪm.jəˈrɪ.tɪk/

Definitions

  1. Old South Arabian.
    obsolete
  2. Any language or dialect belonging to Himyarites and reported from an ancient Arabic perspective as peculiar.
  3. An imagined Semitic language belonging to the Himyarites who however generally wrote Sabaean.

Examples

“If the traditional Arab and Islamic scholars are to be believed, the Ḥimyaritic language was incomprehensible to a speaker of Arabic.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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