Thamudic B

Thamudic B is a Central Semitic language and script concentrated in northwestern Arabia, with attestations in Syria, Egypt, and Yemen. A single Thamudic B text mentions the king of Babylon, which suggests that it was composed before the fall of the kingdom, in the middle of the 6th century BCE.

Thamudic B
Region	Northwest Arabia, occasionally Syria, Egypt, or Yemen
Era	c. 6th century BCE
Language family	Afroasiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Thamudic Thamudic B
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Characteristics

1. The suffix morpheme of the prefix conjugation in the first person is -t, as in Arabic and Northwest Semitic, as opposed to the -k of Ancient South Arabian and Ethiopic.
2. The dative preposition is nm, which appears to be an assimilated form of an original *lima.
3. The consonant /n/ often assimilates to a following contiguous consonant, ʔṯt, from earlier *ʾVnṯat and ʔt, from earlier *[ʔanta].
4. Imperatives are often augmented by the energic suffix -n.^[1]

References

1. Al-Jallad, Ahmad. "Al-Jallad. 2018. The earliest stages of Arabic and its linguistic classification". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)