Nabataean alphabet

Nabataean
Type	Abjad
Languages	Nabataean language
Time period	2nd century BC to 4th century AD
Parent systems	Proto-Sinaitic alphabet Phoenician alphabet Aramaic alphabet Syriac alphabet Nabataean
Child systems	Arabic alphabet
ISO 15924	`Nbat, 159`
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols.

History of the alphabet

Proto-Sinaitic script? 19 c. BCE Ugaritic 15 c. BCE Proto-Canaanite 14 c. BCE Phoenician 12 c. BCE Greek 8 c. BCE Georgian 3 c. BCE Etruscan 8 c. BCE Latin 7 c. BCE Runic 2 c. CE Coptic 3 c. CE Gothic 3 c. CE Armenian 405 Glagolitic 862 Cyrillic c. 940 Aramaic 8 c. BCE Hebrew 3 c. BCE Thaana 4 c. BCE Pahlavi 3 c. BCE Avestan 4 c. CE Palmyrene 2 c. BCE Early Steppean 2 c. BC Proto Rovas 1 c. CE Carpathian Basin Rovas 7 c. CE Szekely-Hungarian Rovas 8 c. CE Khazarian Rovas 7 c. CE Orkhon (Old Turkic) 6 c. CE Syriac 2 c. BCE Sogdian 2 c. BCE Old Uyghur Mongolian 1204 Nabataean 2 c. BCE Arabic 4 c. CE Mandaic 2 c. CE Paleohispanic 7 c. BCE Paleo-Hebrew 10 c. BCE Samaritan 6 c. BCE Epigraphic South Arabian 9 c. BCE Ge’ez 5–6 c. BCE

Meroitic 3 c. BCE

Ogham 4 c. CE

Hangul 1443

Zhuyin (Bopomofo) 1913

The Nabataean alphabet is a consonantal alphabet (abjad) that was used by the Nabataeans in the 2nd century BCE.Page text.^[1] Important inscriptions are found in Petra, Jordan. The alphabet is descended from the Aramaic alphabet via the Syriac alphabet. A cursive form of it in turn developed into the Arabic alphabet from the 4th century^[1], which is why its letterforms are intermediate between the more northerly Semitic scripts (such as the Hebrew) and Arabic.

Name	Arabic Alphabet	Syriac Alphabet
Alaph	ا/ء	ܐ
Beth	ب	ܒ
Gamal	ج	ܓ
Dalath	ﺩ	ܕ
Heh	ه	ܗ
Waw	ﻭ	ܘ
Zain	ﺯ	ܙ
Heth	ح	ܚ
Teth	ﻁ	ܛ
Yodh	ي	ܝ
Kaph	ﻛ/ك	ܟܟ
Lamadh	ل	ܠ
Meem	م	ܡ
Noon	ن	ܢܢ
Simkath		ܣ
'E	ع	ܥ
Peh	ف	ܦ
Sad'e	ص	ܨ
Qoph	ﻕ	ܩ
Resh	ﺭ	ܪ
Sheen	س، ش	ܫ
Taw	ﺕ	ܬ

The Northwest Semitic abjad
ʾ	b	g	d	h	w	z	ḥ	ṭ	y	k	l	m	n	s	ʿ	p	ṣ	q	r	š	t
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100	200	300	400
history • Phoenician • Aramaic • Hebrew • Syriac • Arabic

Brahmic	Ahom Balinese Batak Baybayin Brāhmī Buhid Burmese Chakma Cham Devanāgarī Dhives Akuru Eastern Nagari Grantha Gujarati Gupta Gurmukhī Hanunó'o Javanese Kadamba Kaithi Kalinga Kannada Khmer Lanna Lao Lepcha Limbu Lontara Malayalam Meitei Mayek Mithilakshar Modi Mon Nāgarī Nepali Old Kawi Oriya Pallava 'Phags-pa Ranjana Rejang Rencong Śāradā Saurashtra Sinhala Siddhaṃ Soyombo Sundanese Sylheti Nagari Tagbanwa Tai Dam Tai Le Takri Tamil Telugu Thai Tibetan Tocharian Varang Kshiti

Others	Boyd's syllabic shorthand Canadian Aboriginal Ge'ez Japanese braille Kharoṣṭhī Meroitic Pollard Sorang Sompeng Tāna Thomas Natural Shorthand

Alphabets

Linear	Armenian Avestan Bassa Vah Borama Coptic Cyrillic Deseret Duployan shorthand Eclectic shorthand Elbasan Fraser Gabelsberger shorthand Georgian Glagolitic Gothic Gregg shorthand Greek Greco-Iberian alphabet Hangul International Phonetic Kaddare Latin Manchu Mandaic Mongolian Neo-Tifinagh New Tai Lue N'Ko Ogham Ol Chiki Old Hungarian Old Italic Old Permic Orkhon Osmanya Runic Shavian alphabet Visible Speech Vithkuqi

Non-linear	Braille Hebrew Korean Maritime flags Morse code New York Point Semaphore line Flag semaphore Moon type

Ideo/Pictograms

Aztec Blissymbol DanceWriting Dongba Míkmaq New Epoch Notation Painting Nsibidi SignWriting

Logograms

Chinese	Traditional Simplified Hanja Hán tự Kanji

Chinese-based	Chữ Nôm Jurchen Khitan large script Tangut Zhuang

Other logo-syllabic	Anatolian Cuneiform Maya Yi

Logo-consonantal	Demotic Hieratic Hieroglyphs

Numerals	Hindu-Arabic Abjad Greek (Attic) Roman

Semi-syllabaries

Full	Celtiberian Northeastern Iberian Southeastern Iberian

Redundant	Southwest Paleohispanic Pahawh Hmong Zhùyīn fúhào Khitan small script

Syllabaries

Afaka Cherokee Cypriot Geba Hiragana Katakana Kikakui Kpelle Linear B Man'yōgana Nüshu Old Persian Cuneiform Vai Woleai Yi Yugtun

References

^ ^a ^b [1], http://www.omniglot.com/writing/nabataean.htm.

Nabataean alphabet

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