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Due to the limited number of texts that have survived, many forms are not attested, though hopefully the discovery of new texts will provide us with more source material. In
Minaean, external plurals seem to be especially common; an -h is often used at the end of words in the construct state, even in
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or Ṣayhadic language spoken in Yemen in the times of the Old South
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Minaean is distinguished from the other Old South
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in certain nominal endings, pronouns and particles; some plurals also exhibit this same feature:
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