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Nabataean Aramaic is the extinct Aramaic variety used in inscriptions by the Nabataeans of the East Bank of the Jordan River, the Negev, and the Sinai Peninsula. Compared with other varieties of Aramaic, it is notable for the occurrence of a number of loanwords and grammatical borrowings from Arabic or other North Arabian languages .
The Nabataean Kingdom ( Nabataean Aramaic: 𐢕𐢃𐢋𐢈 Nabāṭū ), also named Nabatea ( / ˌnæbəˈtiːə / ), was a political state of the Nabataeans during classical antiquity . The Nabataean Kingdom controlled many of the trade routes of the region, amassing large wealth and drawing the envy of its neighbors.
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Mar 5, 2018 · The Nabatean Kingdom was a powerful political entity which flourished in the region of modern-day Jordan between the 4th century BCE and c. 106 CE and is best known today for the ruins of its capital city of Petra.
- Joshua J. Mark
The ancient people known as the Nabataeans left us thousands of texts. They wrote in Aramaic, the lingua franca of their time. But the Aramaic of their texts was heavily influenced by Arabic. This project will investigate whether Nabataean Aramaic was ever spoken or was only used in writing.
Jun 13, 2023 · Nabataean Aramaic, originating in the kingdom once ruled from Petra, closely resembles Imperial Aramaic. The latter, spread far and wide by the Achaemenid Empire, is now well known to us from Persian-period corpora like the Elephantine Papyri (cf. Folmer, 1995, 2022; Gzella, 2015, pp. 157–211; Muraoka & Porten, 2003). But Nabataean Aramaic ...
Jul 28, 2021 · In those periods, their written language—Aramaic—was transformational, leading to the development of written Arabic as known today. General Overviews A little over 200 years ago, in August 1812, the Swiss explorer J. L. Burckhardt rediscovered Petra, the ancient capital of the Nabataeans.
