ancient north arabian
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.49 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A branch of South Semitic abjads used in northern and central Arabia and southern Syria from the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE.
name
A hypothetical Central Semitic language, language group or dialects, expressed by these scripts and closely related to Old Arabic.
Example Sentences
- "One of them, a limestone-ostracon found in the debris which covered the remains of a late Roman fortress, is of special significance for Ancient North Arabian palaeography and dialectology."
- "The tribes of the Syrian Harrah may, of course, ultimately have come from Southern Arabia, or their home may have been near the borders of the South-Arabian empires, and their alphabet is no doubt to be derived largely from the so-called Himyaritic script ; for the history of the ancient North-Arabian alphabets seems to be that of a gradual remigration from Southern Arabia, beginning at a time when the Himyaritic alphabet had not yet received the form in which it is known to us."
- "Macdonald (2000:28ff) has grouped the ancient languages in two classes: Ancient North Arabian (ANA) and Ancient South Arabian (ASA). The ANA comprises: Taymanitic, Dadanitic, Dumaitic, Dispersed ONA, Safaitic, Hismaic, Thamudic (B,C,D, and Southern), and Hasaitic."
Etymology
Attested since 1904. Calque of German Alt-Nord-Arabisch (itself from 1870s), which corresponds to Altnordarabisch in modern orthography