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The South Arabian alphabet was added to the Unicode Standard in October, 2009 with the release of version 5.2. The Unicode block, called Old South Arabian, is U+10A60–U+10A7F. Note that U+10A7D OLD SOUTH ARABIAN NUMBER ONE (𐩽) represents both the numeral one and a word divider.
The Old South Arabian script (also caled Ancient South Arabian) was used throughout the Arabian Peninsula, and most commonly used to write Sabaic. It was also used for a variety of other languages, such as Minaic, Qatabanic, Hadramitic, and Himyaritic. Samples of Old South Arabian can be traced back to the 8C BCE.
Processing. Old South Arabian is an alphabetic script consisting only of consonants; vowels are not indicated in any way in the script. It is typically written right-to-left, but boustrophedon writing is also known. Glyphs are mirrored in lines when they have left-to-right directionality. Ordering and character names.
Contents. Old South Arabian (Unicode block) Old South Arabian is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Minean, Sabaean, Qatabanian, Hadramite, and Himyaritic languages of Yemen from the 8th century BCE to the 6th century CE. U+10A7D OLD SOUTH ARABIAN NUMBER ONE (𐩽) represents both the numeral one and a word divider.
South Arabian The South Arabian alphabet is thought to have developed from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet in about the 9th century BC. It is known from inscriptions found in Eritrea, Babylonia and Yemen dating from between 9th century BC and 7th century AD, and was used to write Sabaean, Qatabanian, Hadramautic, Minaean, Himyarite and proto-Ge'ez, extinct Semitic languages once spoken in southern ...
Old South Arabian المُسند is an antique script, which the modern Ethiopic writing stems from. The ancient Yemeni alphabet (Old South Arabian ms3nd; modern Arabic: المُسنَد musnad) branched from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet in about the 9th century BC. It was used for writing the Old South Arabian languages of the Sabaic ...
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The Ancient South Arabian script or Old South Arabian branched from the Proto-Sinaitic script. The earliest inscriptions date to the 9th century B.C., they were found in the Northern Red Sea Region, Eritrea. The script reached its mature form around the V century B.C., and in the VII century it was replaced with Arabic script.
