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- adjective Of or relating to Himyar, an ancient king of
Yemen , or to his successors or people; applied especially to certain ancientinscriptions showing the primitive type of the oldest form of theArabic language.
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In the second and third inscriptions were recognized Syro-Chaldee, which, like Hebrew, Himyaric, and Arabic, belong to the Semitic group, and a third idiom, to which the name of Medic was given, resembling the dialects of the Turks and Tartars.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866
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