𐪅𐪀𐪈 𐪑𐪁𐪉 · @WahbAllat
24 followers · 54 posts · Server mas.tothe oldest Arabic inscriptions found so far were in the Levant (Jordan and Syria) not Saudi Arabia
what was found in Saudi Arabia instead was a family of scripts and languages spoken in oases such as al-Ula (Biblical Dedan) and Tayma that are Semitic languages closely related to Arabic but aren't Arabic
#epigraphy #ancient #old #script #safaitic #silentsunday #sunday #history #archaeology #linguistics #arabic_language_day #arabic #arabs #syria #jordan #saudiarabia
#saudiarabia #jordan #Syria #arabs #arabic #arabic_language_day #linguistics #archaeology #history #sunday #silentsunday #Safaitic #script #old #ancient #epigraphy
𐪅𐪀𐪈 𐪑𐪁𐪉 · @WahbAllat
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A number of Semitic scripts. There was a family of scripts indigenous to the Arabian Peninsula but were replaced with the Arabic script that originated in the Levant. The Ethiopian script (Ge’ez) is descended from Sabaean (Old South Arabian).
#history #sunday #languages #semitic #arabian #arabic #oldnortharabian #oldsoutharabian #saudiarabia #oman #yemen #linguistics #scripts #hebrew #lihyanite #safaitic #sabaen #thamudic #archaeology #andeel #arabs
#arabs #andeel #archaeology #thamudic #sabaen #Safaitic #lihyanite #hebrew #scripts #linguistics #yemen #oman #saudiarabia #oldsoutharabian #oldnortharabian #arabic #arabian #semitic #languages #sunday #history
𐪅𐪀𐪈 𐪑𐪁𐪉 · @WahbAllat
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Tweets from an Ancient Desert – Michael C.A. Macdonald
https://youtu.be/n4MCxbWbTv4
#ancient #epigraphy #safaitic #arabic #inscriptions #literacy #history #linguistics #arabs
#arabs #linguistics #history #literacy #inscriptions #arabic #Safaitic #epigraphy #ancient
𐪅𐪀𐪈 𐪑𐪁𐪉 · @WahbAllat
388 followers · 1604 posts · Server mas.toFour written #languages are attested from the #Ancient #Roman city of #Pompeii. The first three are no surprise: #Latin, #Greek and #Oscan. The fourth is (wait for it...) #Arabic. Specifically the ancient variety of Arabic traditionally called #Safaitic
#Safaitic #arabic #oscan #greek #latin #pompeii #roman #ancient #languages
𐪅𐪀𐪈 𐪑𐪁𐪉 · @WahbAllat
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In red is Harrat al-Sham and it is where the earliest [so far] evidence of #Arabic has been found
Mostly inscriptions in #Safaitic in #Jordan and #Syria
the oldest Arabic #poem found so far references the battle between #Baal and #Mot
#mot #baal #poem #Syria #jordan #Safaitic #arabic