Along with Phoenician, Hebrew, Moabite and Edomite, Ammonite belongs to the group of North-Western Semitic languages, representing the local variant of the Canaanite language as spoken in Northern Transjordan, to the northeast of the Dead Sea, in front of the kingdom of Israel. Onomastics betray a north-Arabic origin. Epigraphically recorded from the 8^th century BC, in the 7^th century Ammonite suffers from the growing cultural pressure of Aramaic and dies out: epigraphic records end by the 6^th century BC.

Ancient Writing Systems

Further information

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