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
Semitic languages
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The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya, Aramaic, Hebrew, Maltese, Modern South Arabian languages and numerous other ancient and m
Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia, regarded as the earliest surviving notable literature, written in Akkadian.
Page from a 12th-century Quran in Arabic