Hasaitic dialect

Hasaitic
Region Arabia
Extinct marginalized by Classical Arabic from the 7th century
Ancient North Arabian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3 –
Glottolog hasa1249[1]

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.[2] It is written in the Ancient North Arabian script[3] and date from the 3rd to 2nd centuries BC.

Notes

  1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Hasaitic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. ↑ William Facey, The Story of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, 1994, ISBN 1-900988-18-6
  3. ↑ Macdonald, M. C. A. (2000). "Reflections on the linguistic map of pre-Islamic Arabia". Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy. pp. 28–79. Retrieved 28 July 2014.

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