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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North Arabia is home to thousands of inscriptions in various scripts referred to as #Thamudic, after the tribe of Thamud. According to the Qur'an, this ancient Arabian tribe was destroyed by God for their sins (e.g. https://quran.com/11/61 and following). But... 1/6
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