Minaean is distinguished from the other Old South Arabian languages by having an extra form for verb stems with a reduplicated second radical, spelled fˁˁl (as in ˁlly, "raise"). Conjugation of the perfect tense Minaean, like the other South Arabian languages, forms the perfect tense by adding suffixes. Unlike the other dialects, however, it does not write the dual and plural endings, they are therefore the same as the singular; for example: s3l''' ("he/they dedicated"). References Bibliography Leonid Kogan and Andrey Korotayev: Sayhadic Languages (Epigraphic South Arabian). Semitic Languages''. London: Routledge, 1997, p. 157-183. Andrey Korotayev. Ancient Yemen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. External links Corpus of Minaic Inscriptions from the Digital Archive for the Study of pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions (DASI) Old South Arabian languages Ancient history of Yemen Languages of Yemen Languages attested from the 13th century BC Languages extinct in the 1st century