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Nabataean script. The Nabataean script is an abjad ( consonantal alphabet) that was used to write Nabataean Aramaic and Nabataean Arabic from the second century BC onwards. [2] [3] Important inscriptions are found in Petra (now in Jordan ), the Sinai Peninsula (now part of Egypt ), and other archaeological sites including Abdah (in Israel) and ...
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Nabataeans. The Nabataeans or Nabateans ( / ˌnæbəˈtiːənz /;...
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Nabataean alphabet. Language codes. ISO 639-3. None ( mis)...
- Nabataeans
Nabataean alphabet, writing system used between approximately 150 bc and ad 150 in the Nabataean kingdom of Petra in the Arabian Peninsula. Used by the Nabataeans to write the Aramaic language, this alphabet was related to the Aramaic alphabet, one of the major Semitic scripts.
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Consonant alphabets (Abjads) Ancient Berber , Arabic , Aramaic , Chorasmian , Elymaic, Hatran , Hebrew , Manichaean , Nabataean , North Arabian , Pahlavi , Palmyrene , Parthian , Phoenician , Paleo-Hebrew , Proto-Sinaitic / Proto-Canaanite , Psalter , Punic , Sabaean , Samaritan , Sogdian , South Arabian , Syriac , Tifinagh , Ugaritic.
The Arabic alphabet descended from Aramaic via the Nabataean alphabet of what is now southern Jordan. It is the second-most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world (after the Latin script ) and the most used abjad system.
Sep 20, 2016 · It should be known, however, that the Nabataeans did not suddenly and altogether disappear. Most of them must have remained in the cities where they lived, went on using the Nabataean alphabet until the mid-fourth century CE, and continued to give typical Nabataean names to their children.
