Ancient North Arabian

Ancient North Arabian
Script type
Time period
8th century BCE to 4th century CE
LanguagesDadanitic, Taymanitic, Dumaitic, Thamudic, Safaitic, Hismaic
Related scripts
Parent systems
Sister systems
Ancient South Arabian
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Narb (106), ​Old North Arabian (Ancient North Arabian)
Unicode
Unicode alias
Old North Arabian
U+10A80–U+10A9F
Ancient North Arabian
Native toJordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen
RegionArabian Peninsula
Extinct6th century
Ancient North Arabian
Language codes
ISO 639-3xna
xna
Glottologanci1245
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Ancient North Arabian (ANA)[1][2] is a collection of scripts and a language or family of languages[3] under the North Arabian languages branch along with Old Arabic that were used in north and central Arabia and south Syria from the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE.[4] The term "Ancient North Arabian" is defined negatively. It refers to all of the South Semitic scripts except Ancient South Arabian (ASA) regardless of their genetic relationships.[5]

  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World. Elsevier. 2010. p. 931. ISBN 978-0-08-087775-4.
  3. ^ Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier. 24 November 2005. ISBN 978-0-08-054784-8.
  4. ^ Macdonald, M. C. A. (2004). "Ancient North Arabian". In Woodard, Roger D. (ed.). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Cambridge University Press. pp. 488–533. ISBN 0-521-56256-2.
  5. ^ Ahmad Al-Jallad, What is Ancient North Arabian?[permanent dead link‍], p. 4 n8.