Ancient North ArabianCollection of scripts and possibly a language Languages and scripts in 1st century Arabia Ancient North Arabian (ANA) is a collection of scripts and a language or family of languages under the North Arabian languages branch along with Old Arabic that were used in north and central Arabia and south Syria from the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE. The term "Ancient North Arabian" is defined negatively.
Old ArabicOld Arabic is the name for any Arabic language or dialect continuum before Islam. Various forms of Old Arabic are attested in scripts like Safaitic, Hismaic, Nabatean, and Greek, most of which seem to be concentrated in the southern Levant. Alternatively, the term has been used synonymously with "Paleo-Arabic" to describe the form of the Arabic script in the fifth and sixth centuries.
SafaiticSafaitic (Arabic: ٱلصَّفَائِيَّةAl-Ṣafāʾiyyah) is a variety of the South Semitic scripts that was used by the Arabs in southern Syria and northern Jordan in the Ḥarrah region, to carve rock inscriptions in various dialects of Old Arabic and Ancient North Arabian. The Safaitic script is a member of the Ancient North Arabian (ANA) sub-grouping of the South Semitic script family, the genetic unity of which has yet to be demonstrated.
DusharaDushara (Nabataean Arabic: 𐢅𐢈𐢝𐢛𐢀, romanized: dwšrʾ; Safaitic: 𐪕𐪆𐪇, romanized: dśr), also transliterated as Dusares or Dhu Shara, is a pre-Islamic Arabiangod worshipped by the Nabataeans at Petra and Hegra (of which city he was the patron). Safaitic inscriptions imply he was the son of the goddess Al-Lat, and that he assembled in the heavens with other deities. He is called "Dushara from Petra" in one inscription.
Arabian PeninsulaPeninsula in West AsiaThe Arabian Peninsula, or simply Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia. It accounts for the majority of the land situated on the Arabian plate. With an area of 3,237,500 km (1.25 million mi), it is the world's largest peninsula—roughly comparable in size to India. Nine countries are located on the Arabian Peninsula: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen, as well as the southern halves of Iraq and Jordan.
MalichusMalichus is a given name. It may refer to: Malichus I, a king of Nabataea who reigned from 59 to 30 BC.Malichus II, a king of Nabataea who reigned from 40 to 70 AD.Malichus, assassin of Antipater the IdumaeanSee alsoList of Nabataean kingsMalchus (other)This page or section lists people that share the same given name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article.
ArabicCentral Semitic languageArabic is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of Literary Arabic, known as Modern Standard Arabic, which is derived from Classical Arabic.
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