Hasaitic Explained

Hasaitic
Region:Arabia
Extinct:marginalized by Classical Arabic from the 7th century
Familycolor:Afro-Asiatic
Fam2:Semitic
Fam3:West Semitic
Fam4:Central Semitic
Fam5:North Arabian?
Fam6:Old Arabic
Script:Monumental South Arabian script
Isoexception:dialect
Glotto:hasa1249
Glottorefname:Hasaitic

Hasaitic is an Ancient North Arabian dialect attested in inscriptions in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia at Thaj, Hinna, Qatif, Ras Tanura, Abqaiq in the al-Hasa region, Ayn Jawan, Mileiha and at Uruk.[1] It is written in the Monumental South Arabian script[2] and dates from the 5th to 2nd centuries BC.

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Notes and References

  1. William Facey, The Story of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, 1994,
  2. M. C. A. . Macdonald . Reflections on the linguistic map of pre-Islamic Arabia . Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy . 2000 . 11 . 28–79 . 28 July 2014.