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Safaitic ( Arabic: ٱلصَّفَائِيَّة Al-Ṣafāʾiyyah) is a variety of the South Semitic scripts used by the Arabs in southern Syria and northern Jordan in Ḥarrah region, to carve rock inscriptions in various dialects of Old Arabic and Ancient North Arabian. The Safaitic script is a member of the Ancient North Arabian (ANA) sub ...
The development of the Ancient South Arabian monumental script. nium BC up to the late sixth century AD, just before the arrival of Islam. Although a close connection with the Northwest Semitic scripts in Ugarit and Palestine is beyond doubt, the actual genesis of the South Arabian alphabet has not yet been revealed.
Sabaean alphabet Origin. The Sabaean or Sabaic alphabet is one of the south Arabian alphabets. The oldest known inscriptions in this alphabet date from about 500 BC. Its origins are not known, though one theory is that it developed from the Byblos alphabet. The Sabaean alphabet is thought to have evolved into the Ethiopic script. Notable features
v. t. e. The ancient Aramaic alphabet was used to write the Aramaic languages spoken by ancient Aramean pre-Christian tribes throughout the Fertile Crescent. It was also adopted by other peoples as their own alphabet when empires and their subjects underwent linguistic Aramaization during a language shift for governing purposes — a precursor ...
The Armenian alphabet ( Armenian: Հայոց գրեր, Hayoc’ grer or Հայոց այբուբեն, Hayoc’ aybuben) or, more broadly, the Armenian script, is an alphabetic writing system developed for Armenian and occasionally used to write other languages. It was developed around AD 405 by Mesrop Mashtots, an Armenian linguist and ...
Mar 1, 2024 · The Ancient South Arabian alphabet, which branched from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet in about the 9th century BC. 2011 , Saad D. Abulhab, DeArabizing Arabia , →ISBN : With a stretch of imagination, some Nabataean shapes can be made to resemble those of Jazm, but so do many Musnad shapes.
Tifinagh is one of three major competing Berber orthographies alongside the Berber Latin alphabet and the Arabic alphabet. [4] Tifinagh is the official script for Tamazight, an official language of Morocco and Algeria. However, outside of symbolic cultural uses, Latin remains the dominant script for writing Berber languages throughout North Africa.
