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    The Nabataean script is an abjad (consonantal alphabet) that was used to write Nabataean Aramaic and Nabataean Arabic from the second century BC onwards...
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    the Arabic script. The phonology of Nabataean Aramaic can only be reconstructed in part, based on the mostly consonantal Nabataean script and comparison...
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    The Nabataeans or Nabateans (/ˌnæbəˈtiːənz/; Nabataean Aramaic: 𐢕𐢃𐢋𐢈‎, NBṬW, vocalized as Nabāṭū; Arabic: ٱلْأَنْبَاط, al-ʾAnbāṭ, singular النبطي,...
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  • Paleo-Arabic (category Nabataean script)
    script. It comes prior to Classical Arabic, but it is also a recognizable form of the Arabic script, emerging after a transitional phase of Nabataean...
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  • the South Semitic scripts were replaced by the Arabic script, which is descended from the Nabataean script. Ahmad Al-Jallad, "Script and Orthography",...
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  • documentation of Arabic names in the Nabataean script as well as evidence of an Arabic substratum in the Nabataean language. The Safaitic and Hismaic inscriptions...
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     100. ISBN 0803291671. "Nabataean abjad". www.omniglot.com. Retrieved 8 March 2017. Naveh, Joseph. "Nabatean Language, Script and Inscriptions" (PDF)...
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    Arabic alphabet. The Musnad script differs from the Arabic script, which most linguists believe developed from the Nabataean script in the fourth century AD...
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    North Arabian script (known as Thamudic B) and Canaanite which remains undeciphered, discovered in Bayir, Jordan. A characteristic of Nabataean Arabic and...
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    The Nabataean Kingdom (Nabataean Aramaic: 𐢕𐢃𐢋𐢈 Nabāṭū), also named Nabatea (/ˌnæbəˈtiːə/), was a political state of the Nabataeans during classical...
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    that not only the old Nabataean writing was influenced by the "Syrian script" (i.e. Aramaic), but also the old Chaldean script. A cursive Hebrew variant...
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  • History of the Arabic alphabet (category Arabic script)
    the Nabataean and Syriac forms. The Arabic script shown is that of post-Classical and Modern Arabic—notably different from 6th century Arabic script. (Arabic...
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    Arabic (category CS1 uses Arabic-language script (ar))
    Namaraa, Syria. From the 4th to the 6th centuries, the Nabataean script evolved into the Arabic script recognizable from the early Islamic era. There are...
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    The Cyrillic script (/sɪˈrɪlɪk/ sih-RIL-ik), Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It...
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  • Nabataean Arabic was the dialect of Arabic spoken by the Nabataeans in antiquity. It was succeeded by Paleo-Arabic. In the first century AD, the Nabataeans...
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    Arabic alphabet (category Arabic script)
    chronograms. The Arabic alphabet can be traced back to the Nabataean script used to write Nabataean Aramaic. The first known text in the Arabic alphabet is...
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    example the Son of God Text; in different regional dialects, including Nabataean) and a few in Greek. Discoveries from the Judaean Desert add Latin (from...
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    appearance of the Qaḥṭānites in the Levant and the gradual assimilation of the Nabataeans by the Qaḥṭānites in the early centuries CE, a pattern of expansion exceeded...
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    Dushara is known first from epigraphic Nabataean sources who invariably spell the name dwšrʾ, the Nabataean script denoting only consonants. He appears...
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  • fourth century. Inscriptions in various scripts used in the Arabian Peninsula including the Nabataean script, Safaitic, and Sabaic attest to the practice...
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  • is a further derivation from Sogdian. The Arabic script is a medieval cursive variant of Nabataean, itself an offshoot of Aramaic. It has been proposed...
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    inscriptions in Arabic. The Nabataean alphabet was adopted by Arabs to the south, and evolved into modern Arabic script around the 4th century. This...
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    enforced western dress and the use of a new Turkish alphabet based on Latin script in place of the Arabic alphabet, and abolished the jurisdiction of the Islamic...
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  • The Hanifi Rohingya script is a unified script for the Rohingya language. Rohingya today is written in three scripts, Hanifi, Arabic (Rohingya Fonna),...
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  • Sinaitic script could refer to: Nabataean script, the script previously known as Sinaitic as most examples were found in the Sinai Proto-Sinaitic script, the...
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    Namara inscription (category Nabataean script)
    has also been interpreted as a late version of the Nabataean script in its transition to Arabic script. It has been described by Irfan Shahid as "the most...
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    Mëranaw, Minangkabau, Tausūg, and Ternate. Jawi is based on the Arabic script, consisting of all of the original 31 Arabic letters, and six additional...
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