Old Arabic
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Old Arabic is the name for any Arabic language or dialect continuum before Islam. Various forms of Old Arabic are attested in scripts like Safaitic, Hismaic, Nabatean, and Greek, most of which seem to
Epitaph of Imru al-Qays I ibn Amr (328 AD)
Northern Negev
Wadi Rum
Temple of Obodas
Safaitic
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Safaitic is a variety of the South Semitic scripts that was used by the Arabs in southern Syria and northern Jordan in the Ḥarrah region, to carve rock inscriptions in various dialects of Old Arabic a
Old Arabic
…Old Arabic is the name for any Arabic language or dialect continuum before Islam. Various forms of Old Arabic are attested in scripts like Safaitic, Hismaic, Nabatean, and Greek, most of which seem to be concentrated in the southern Levant. Alternatively, the term has been used synonymously with…
Safaitic script with a figure of a camel on a red sandstone fragment, from es-Safa, currently housed in the British Museum