Hasaitic
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Ancient North Arabian | ||
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Spoken in: | Arabia | |
Language extinction: | marginalized by Classical Arabic from the 7th century | |
Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Central Arabic Ancient North Arabian |
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Writing system: | South Arabian alphabet | |
Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | – | |
ISO 639-3: | xna | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. |
Hasaitic is an Old North Arabian dialect attested in inscriptions in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia at Thaj, Hinna, Qatif, Ras Tanura, Abqaiq in the al-Hasa region, Ayn Jawan, Mileiha and at Uruk.[1] They are written in the South Arabian script and date to the 3rd to 2nd centuries BC.
[edit] Refecences
- M. C. A. Macdonald, Reflections on the linguistic map of pre-Islamic Arabia, Arabian archaeology and epigraphy 11 (2000), 28-79.
- ^ William Facey, The Story of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, 1994, ISBN 1 900988 18 6
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