Article: Arabic languages

Article: Himyaritic
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      13 words ..., another name for Old South Arabian. See Arabic languages ; Afroasiatic languages .

Article: SAL
The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations;      8 words ...SAL South Arabian League • surface airlifted mail

Article: Arabia Felix: From the Time of the Queen of Sheba, Eighth Century B.C. to First Century A.D.(Book Review)
The Historian;  June 22, 2003 ;     632 words ......was only the earliest of the major South Arabian states that arose along the wadis flowing...sources are more than fifteen thousand South Arabian texts and the recent burgeoning archaeological...deal with the distinctive character of South Arabian society with analysis of its ...

Article: Afroasiatic languages
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ......Arabic, and the unrelated Old and Modern South Arabian. The term Canaanite is derived from...as well as the ancient and modern South Arabian languages are also classified as West...tongues. (Some linguists classify the South Arabian languages with Ethiopic in the South...

Article: Ethiopic
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      275 words ......are Tigre and Tigrinya. Because Ethiopic is close to Old South Arabian lexically and grammatically, it has been suggested that its...derived from the alphabetic South Semitic writing of the Old South Arabian inscriptions, to which it shows many similarities. The reason...

Article: Bridging two worlds: The Aksum-Arabia Axis: The importance and influence of Aksum, an ancient empire that once held sway over both sides of the Red Sea.
The Middle East;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......for example, the ancient Ethiopian language of Ge'ez shares South Arabian roots--some linguists are making startling claims that previous...early as 2000BC. During the zenith of Aksum's influence, the South Arabian states of Saba, Himyar and the Hadhramawt had very close...

Article: Hadhramaut
Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names;      107 words ......where Death comes’. According to local mythology, the Hadhramaut is named after a son, 'Amr, of Qahtan, progenitor of the South Arabian tribes. 'Amr was given the nickname Hadhramaut because of the confrontational times in which he lived.

Article: Muawiya
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      133 words ......aggression by continual raids beyond its borders. His policies ended the ancient hostility that long had separated the North and South Arabian tribes, thus making the Muslim empire the remarkably unified force that it was. Muawiya's administration was always tolerant...

Article: Aden
The Oxford Companion to British History;      86 words ......station on the steamship route from Suez to Bombay. In April 1937 it became a British crown colony and in 1963 part of the South Arabian Federation of Arab Emirates. After the civil war (1965–7) the British withdrew from Aden and it became the capital...

Article: Hud
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      94 words ..., a pre-Qur'anic prophet of Islam. Hud unsuccessfully exhorted his South Arabian people, the Ad, to worship the One God. The Qur'an mentions that their incredulity was punished by a decimating sterilizing wind...

Article: Semitic languages
World Encyclopedia;      73 words ......North West Semitic (including Hebrew , Aramaic , and Eblaite); North East Semitic (consisting of Akkadian); and Central and Southern Semitic (including Arabic , South Arabian, and Ethiopic). Only Hebrew and Arabic survived to develop modern forms.

Article: Yemen, South
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History;      215 words ......itself became a Crown Colony in 1937, with its surrounding territory becoming a British protectorate. The latter became the South Arabian Federation of Arab Emirates in 1959, which the colony of Aden joined in 1963. Influenced by the republican and Arabic nationalist...

Article: Unearthing the wonders of Yemen. (Institut du Monde Arabe exhibition of Yemeni artifacts)(includes related article on South Arabian history)
The Middle East;  October 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......master nature. What we want to show is the whole journey of Yemeni Man, from the dawn of prehistory to the zenith of the South Arabian kingdoms. The exhibition starts with a short audio-visual introduction explaining the geological formation of the Arab peninsula...

Article: Phoenix Ancient Art to Exhibit on Premier Luxury Art Cruise in Miami.
Business Wire;  November 19, 2007 ;     508 words ......beautiful alabaster figure of a standing man. South Arabian in origin, his strong, abstracted features convey...modern feel. This sculpture is among the finest South Arabian statues known, truly exceptional for both its...