The Faifi language, from a Semitic branch further to Arabic than Hebrew or Aramaic. Though after over a thousand years of contact it has been heavily influenced by Arabic.
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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).
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