The project, which has been funded by the DFG since 2024, aims to create an online dictionary of Minaic. Minaic, which belongs to the ancient South Arabian languages, is documented in around 2,000 inscriptions spanning the entire first millennium BC. Although most of the material comes from the north of present-day Yemen, Minaic inscriptions have also been found in northwestern Arabia, Egypt, and the Aegean region. Due to the strong involvement of the Minaeans in international trade between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean region, the texts in the Minaic language are an important testimony not only to the history of the Arabian Peninsula, but also to the economic and social history of the ancient world as a whole. Recently, the collection of Minaic texts and lexemes has grown significantly, particularly due to the publication of the minuscule inscriptions.

The project aims to comprehensively compile the vocabulary of the Minaic inscriptions in a dictionary for the first time. In order to make the material optimally accessible to users, the existing online version of the Sabaean dictionary is currently being redesigned into a comprehensive platform. The presentation of the material, including context translations, older translation suggestions for the lemmas, and etymological comparative material from within and outside South Arabia, therefore follows the pattern of the Sabaic Dictionary.