The Edomite language was a Hebrewic dialect spoken by the Edomites in southwestern Jordan and parts of Israel in the first millennium BC. It is known only from a very small corpus. In early times it seems to have been written with a Canaanite alphabet; like the Moabite language it retained feminine -t. However in the 6th century BC it adopted the Aramaic alphabet.
ISO 639-3 code
xdm
family
Semitic languages, Canaanite languages, Central Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic languages
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