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Thamudic is a name that refers to ancient Arabic Thamudic tribe language found by nineteenth-century scholars for large numbers of inscriptions in 
Thamudic A is now known as
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History - Pre-Islamic Period Inscriptions - Thamudic
{{Authority control History of Saudi Arabia Ancient North Arabian
Thamudic is a name that refers to ancient Arabic Thamudic tribe language found by nineteenth-century scholars for large numbers of inscriptions in Ancient North Arabian
Ancient North Arabian (ANA)http://e-learning.tsu.ge/pluginfile.php/5868/mod_resource/content/0/dzveli_armosavluri_enebi_-ugarituli_punikuri_arameuli_ebrauli_arabuli.pdf is a collection of scripts and possibly a language or family of languages (or ...
(ANA) alphabets which have not yet been properly studied. These texts are found over a huge area from southern Syria to Yemen. In 1937, Fred V. Winnett divided those known at the time into five rough categories A, B, C, D, E. In 1951, some 9,000 more inscriptions were recorded in south-west Saudi Arabia which have been given the name Southern Thamudic.
Thamudic A is now known as Taymanitic
Taymanitic was the language and script of the oasis of Tayma, Taymāʾ in northwestern Arabia, dated to the second half of the 6th century BCE.
Classification
Taymanitic does not participate in the key innovations of Proto-Arabic, precluding i ...
. Thamudic E is now known as Hismaic
Hismaic is a variety of the Ancient North Arabian script and the language most commonly expressed in it. The Hismaic script may have been used to write Safaitic dialects of Old Arabic, but the language of most inscriptions differs from Safaitic ...
. Southern Thamudic is also known as Thamudic F.
Varieties
Thamudic B
The Thamudic B inscriptions are concentrated in Northwest Arabia, but can be occasionally found in Syria, Egypt, and Yemen.Thamudic C
The Thamudic C inscriptions are concentrated in the Najd, but can be found elsewhere across western Arabia as well.Thamudic D
Thamudic D inscriptions are concentrated in northwest Arabia, and one occurs alongside a Nabataean tomb inscription in Hegra (Mada'in Salih) dated to the year 267 CE.Thamudic F (Southern Thamudic)
Thamudic F texts come from the southwestern part of the Arabian Peninsula and seem to contain only names, although some of these names contain mimation and one example of a hl- */hal/ definite article.References
*Further reading
*External links
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History - Pre-Islamic Period Inscriptions - Thamudic
{{Authority control History of Saudi Arabia Ancient North Arabian