Safaitic Arabic

E204667

ancient North Arabian dialect epigraphic dialect

Safaitic Arabic is an ancient North Arabian dialect known from inscriptions left by nomadic tribes in the southern Syrian and northern Arabian deserts during the first centuries CE.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Ancient North Arabian	1
Ancient North Arabian script	1
Hismaic Arabic	1
Safaitic Arabic canonical	1
Thamudic	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient North Arabian dialect ⓘ epigraphic dialect ⓘ
attestedIn	rock inscriptions ⓘ
attestedOn	boulders ⓘ cliff faces ⓘ rocks ⓘ
contributesTo	history of nomadic tribes in North Arabia ⓘ reconstruction of pre-Islamic Arabic ⓘ
discoveredIn	Kingdom of Jordan ⓘ surface form: modern Jordan modern Syria ⓘ northern Saudi Arabia ⓘ
era	first centuries CE ⓘ late pre-Islamic period ⓘ
hasCorpusSize	several thousand inscriptions ⓘ
hasFeature	absence of written short vowels ⓘ formulaic dedicatory texts ⓘ graffiti-style inscriptions ⓘ tribal and personal names in inscriptions ⓘ use of matres lectionis for some vowels ⓘ
languageFamily	Afroasiatic languages ⓘ surface form: Afro-Asiatic languages Semitic languages ⓘ
namedAfter	as-Safa region ⓘ
region	Levant region ⓘ surface form: Levant Syrian Desert ⓘ Northern Arabia ⓘ surface form: northern Arabia
relatedTo	Classical Arabic ⓘ Dadanitic ⓘ Hismaic ⓘ Taymanitic ⓘ
scriptDirection	right-to-left ⓘ
scriptType	consonantal alphabet ⓘ
spokenIn	northern Arabian desert ⓘ Syrian Desert ⓘ surface form: southern Syrian desert
studiedInDiscipline	Semitic epigraphy ⓘ historical linguistics ⓘ
subfamily	Central Semitic languages ⓘ
subgroup	Safaitic Arabic self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Ancient North Arabian
timePeriod	1st century BCE ⓘ 1st century CE ⓘ 2nd century CE ⓘ 3rd century CE ⓘ
usedBy	nomadic tribes ⓘ
usedFor	commemorative inscriptions ⓘ genealogical statements ⓘ records of raids ⓘ records of travel ⓘ religious invocations ⓘ
writingSystem	Safaitic script ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nabataean Arabic → closelyRelatedTo → Safaitic Arabic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hismaic Arabic

South Arabian script → distinctFrom → Safaitic Arabic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ancient North Arabian script

Hegra → inscriptionLanguages → Safaitic Arabic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Thamudic

Safaitic Arabic → subgroup → Safaitic Arabic self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ancient North Arabian