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Name: Deir 'Alla Code: xdr Code Authority: ISO 639-3 Code Standard: LINGUIST List Families: Afro-Asiatic Parent Subgroup: Northwest Semitic; South Central (nwsm) Brief Description: Only two texts of this language are extant, both very fragmentary. One, painted on the walls of a temple in the Jordan valley, recounts a vision of the prophet Balaam son of Beor. The language is sometimes treated as Canaanite. Circa 800 BC

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Linguist List Status: Extinct