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Nabataean script

Script used by the Nabataeans from the second century BC onwards Nabataean script Script type Abjad Period2nd century BC to 4th century ADDirectionRight-to-left script LanguagesNabataean AramaicNabataean ArabicRelated scriptsParent systemsEgyptian hieroglyphsProto-Sinaitic scriptPhoenician alphabetAramaic alphabetNabataean scriptChild systemsArabic scriptISO 15924ISO 15924Nbat (159), ​NabataeanUnicodeUnicode aliasNabataeanUnicode rangeU+10880–U+108AF Final Accepted Script Proposal History of the alphabet‡ Entries marked with a double dagger are non-alphabetic Egyptian hieroglyphs‡ 32nd c. BCE Hieratic‡ 32nd c. BCE Demotic‡ 7th c. BCE Meroitic 3rd c. BCE Proto-Sinaitic‡ 19th c. BCE Ugaritic 15th c. BCE Ancient South Arabian 9th c. BCE Geʽez c. 5th c. BCE Phoenician 12th c. BCE Hangul 1443 Thaana c. 1601 Adlam 1989 Phoenician 12th c. BCE Paleo-Hebrew 10th c. BCE Samaritan 6th c. BCE Aramaic 8th c. BCE Unknown Kushan script 600–200 BCE Kharosthi 3rd c. BCE Brahmi 3rd c. BCE (Brahmic) Pallava 4th century Cham 4th century Dhives Akuru 6th century Khmer 611 Tibetan 7th century ʼPhags-pa 1269 Devanagari 10th century Canadian Aboriginal 1840 Hebrew 3rd c. BCE Pahlavi‡ 2nd c. BCE Avestan 4th century Palmyrene 1st c. BCE Nabataean 2nd c. BCE Arabic 4th century N'Ko 1949 Syriac 1st century Sogdian 2nd century Old Turkic 8th century Old Hungarian c. 650 Old Uyghur Mongolian 1204 Mandaic 2nd century Greek 8th c. BCE Etruscan 8th c. BCE Latin 7th c. BCE Deseret 1854 Great Lakes Algonquian 19th century Blackfoot 1888 Fraser 1915 Saanich 1978 Osage 2006 Runic 2nd century Ogham 4th century Lycian 5th c. BCE Coptic 3rd century Gothic 3rd century Armenian 405 Caucasian Albanian c. 420 Georgian c. 430 Glagolitic 862 Cyrillic c. 940 Old Permic 1372 Libyco-Berber 10th c. BCE Tifinagh 4th century Neo-Tifinagh 1970 Paleohispanic 7th c. BCE Nabataean Arabic inscription from Umm al-Jimal in northern Jordan The Nabataean script is an abjad (consonantal alphabet) that was used to write Nabataean Aramaic and Nabataean Arabic from the second century BC onwards.

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