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The Ancient South Arabian script (Old South Arabian: 𐩣𐩯𐩬𐩵 ms3nd; modern Arabic: الْمُسْنَد musnad) branched from the Proto-Sinaitic script in about the late 2nd millennium BCE. It was used for writing the Old South Arabian languages Sabaic, Qatabanic, Hadramautic, Minaean, and Hasaitic, and the ancient language of Eritrea, Geʽez in Dʿmt.
Old South Arabian [1] [2] [3] (also known as Ancient South Arabian (ASA), Epigraphic South Arabian, Ṣayhadic, or Yemenite) is a group of four closely related extinct languages ( Sabaean/Sabaic, Qatabanic, Hadramitic, Minaic) spoken in the far southern portion of the Arabian Peninsula. The earliest preserved records belonging to the group are ...
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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 ...
South Arabian inscription addressed to the Sabaean national god Almaqah. Its mature form was reached around 800 BCE and its use continued until the 6th century CE, including Ancient North Arabian inscriptions in variants of the alphabet, when it was displaced by the Arabic alphabet.
Origins. The Arabic alphabet evolved either from the Nabataean, [1] [2] or (less widely believed) directly from the Syriac. [3] The table below shows changes undergone by the shapes of the letters from the Aramaic original to the Nabataean and Syriac forms. The Arabic script shown is that of post-Classical and Modern Arabic—notably different ...
South-East Asia (Indonesia) Perso-Arabic: Persian: 32 پ چ ژ گ: Naskh and Nastaliq: Persian (Farsi) West Asia (Iran etc. ) Arabic: Also known as Perso-Arabic. Shahmukhi: 41 ݪ ݨ Nastaliq: Punjabi: South Asia Perso-Arabic: Saraiki: 45 ٻ ڄ ݙ ڳ: Nastaliq: Saraiki: South Asia (Pakistan) Urdu: Sindhi: 52 ڪ ڳ ڱ گ ک پ ڀ ٻ ٽ ٿ ٺ ڻ ...
Apr 26, 2017 · The inscriptions from this location published to date comprise two grave stones with texts in Ancient South Arabian monumental script or musnad (Robin-Mulayḥa 11 and Wilkinson-Mulayḥa 12), an Aramaic-Hasaitic bilingual tomb inscription (Overlaet et al., 2016),3 a bronze plaque with a nine-line inscription in Aramaic and the fragment of a ...
