Edomite

E27503

Edomite was an extinct Northwest Semitic language once spoken by the ancient Edomites in the region south of the Kingdom of Judah.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Edomite canonical 8
Edomites 8
Edomite language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Northwest Semitic language
extinct language
associatedDeity Qos
associatedWithReligion Edomite religion
attested 6th century BCE
8th century BCE
closelyRelatedTo Ammonite
Hebrew
Moabite
linked to: Moabites
culturalContext Iron Age Levant
era 1st millennium BCE
extinctionPeriod Persian period
linked to: Achaemenid Empire
geographicContext Negev region
linked to: Negev desert

Transjordan
linked to: Jordan
hasEvidenceType inscriptions
ostraca
seal impressions
hasGlottocode edom1242
hasLinguisticFeature Canaanite shift
use of definite article similar to Hebrew
influencedBy Aramaic
ISO639-3Code xdm
languageBranch Semitic
languageFamily Afroasiatic
languageGroup Northwest Semitic
languageSubgroup Canaanite
neighboringLanguage Ammonite
Aramaic
Biblical Hebrew
linked to: Hebrew

Moabite
region Edom
area south of the Kingdom of Judah
southern Levant
linked to: Levant region
replacedBy Aramaic
scriptDirection right-to-left
sharesFeaturesWith Phoenician
spokenBy Edomites
linked to: Edomite
status extinct
subclassOf Afroasiatic language
Canaanite language
Semitic language
usedIn administrative documents
personal names
royal inscriptions
writingSystem Aramaic alphabet
Phoenician alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (18)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Idumea inhabitedBy Edomites
linked to: Edomite
Idumea ethnicGroupAssociatedWith Idumeans
linked to: Edomite
Idumea ethnicGroupAssociatedWith Edomites
linked to: Edomite
Idumea languageSpoken Edomite language
linked to: Edomite
Moabite closelyRelatedTo Edomite
Northwest Semitic hasMember Edomite
Edomite spokenBy Edomites
linked to: Edomite
Esau ethnicAncestorOf Edomites
linked to: Edomite
Idumaean relatedEthnonym Edomite
Qos ethnicAssociation Edomites
linked to: Edomite
Edomite language spokenBy Edomites
linked to: Edomite
Oholibamah daughter of Anah associatedWithPeople Edomites
linked to: Edomite
Eliphaz ethnicity Edomite
Eliphaz people Edomites
linked to: Edomite