Origin of himyarities.

[Midas]

I was looking through the Wikipedia of places cush was identified and then I found a refrence saying that christan Syrian writers in the 5th century identified himyar as cushites. I tried to looking for the source of this refrence and its from the 1911 Britannica edition and was mentioned in passing by Stanley Arthur Cook who a professor of Hebrew at Cambridge University so im guessing he didnt make up seeing that refrence. @Idilinaa @Shimbiris @NidarNidar

When I went to the page for himyarite on Wikipedia I found this portion very interesting.

Im not a lingusti or anything but isnt this suffic conjugation with the k remind you of somali. Also the fact that it's also attested in ethiosemetic and modern south arabic both language families with a cushtic substratum is interesting as wwell. This is of course all very tangential but I think id be intresting if somebody took a look at it especially Since this k-suffix is only persevered in the arabic yafi dialects located in the lahji governoate which is right across from the part of the somali coast with the largest pouplation concentration

 

[Midas]

A related point to this is the fact that the capital of himyar is spelled zofar but if you look at the Arabic spelling its exactly the same as the dhofar governante of Oman and its just a different way of romanization.

I think the fact that both of these places are called dhofar and the omani one is known for incense is i think way too coincidental. It seems to me like your looking at the same situation as the swahili towns with the names "gedi' and "sofala"

 

[Maakhri2024]

Im not a lingusti or anything but isnt this suffic conjugation with the k remind you of somali. Also the fact that it's also attested in ethiosemetic and modern south arabic both language families with a cushtic substratum is interesting as wwell. This is of course all very tangential but I think id be intresting if somebody took a look at it especially Since this k-suffix is only persevered in the arabic yafi dialects located in the lahji governoate which is right across from the part of the somali coast with the largest pouplation concentration

Furthermore, the suffixes of the perfect (suffix conjugation) in the first person singular and the second person began with /-k-/, while most varieties of Arabic have /-t-/ .

وَصَلْتَ (waṣalta) : second-person masculine singular past active of وَصَلَ (waṣala) in Arabic language .

وَصَلْتِ (waṣalti): second-person feminine singular past active of وَصَلَ (waṣala) in Arabic language .

وَصَلْكَ (waṣalka) : second-person masculine singular past active of وَصَلَ
(waṣala) in Himyaritic language .

وَصَلِشِ (waṣalshi) : second-person feminine singular past active of وَصَلَ (waṣala) in Himyaritic language

ant wasalata "أنت وَصَلْتَ" for second-person masculine in Arabic language means You arrived .

ant wasalaka "أنت وَصَلْكَ" for second-person masculine in Himyaritic language means You arrived .

Somali language : waan ku arkay means : i saw you .
Somali language : waad cuntay means : you ate.
Somali language : waad timid means : You arrived .


-k → -t / -d / -s /-sh .

## read Inscription of the Himyarite poem, also known as the Sun Hymn " نقش القصيدة الحِميَريّة أو كما يعرف بترنيمة الشمس " .

نشترن خير كمهذ هــقحك in Himyaritic language .

نستجير بك ياخير فكل ما يحدث هو مما صنعت in Arabic language .

بصيد خنون مـأت نــسَحك in Himyaritic language .
بموسم صيد خِنوان مائة أضحية سَفَحْتِ in Arabic language .