Old Hijazi Arabic
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Old Hijazi or Old Hejazi is a variety of Old Arabic attested in the Hejaz region in present-day Saudi Arabia from about the 1st to the 7th century. It is the variety thought to underlie the Quranic Co
Birmingham Quran manuscript
Dadanitic
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Dadanitic is the script and possibly the language of the oasis of Dadān and the kingdom of Liḥyān in northwestern Arabia, spoken probably some time during the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Old Hijazi Arabic
…Old Arabic. The infinitive verbal complement is replaced with a subordinating clause ʾan yafʿala ⟨أنْ يَفْعَلَ⟩, attested in the QCT and a fragmentary Dadanitic inscription. The QCT along with the papyri of the first century after the Islamic conquests attest a form with an l-element between the demonstrative…
Dadanitic script on a tablet.
Dadan
Dadanitic inscription from Al-'Ula, 'Umm Daraj temple, commemorating a pilgrimage. 5th-1st century BC.