Hasaitic

Hasaitic

Infobox Language|name=Ancient North Arabian
region=Arabia
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
extinct=marginalized by Classical Arabic from the 7th century
fam2=Semitic
fam3=West
fam4=Central
fam5=Arabic
script=South Arabian alphabet
iso3=xna

Hasaitic is an Old 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. [William Facey, "The Story of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia", 1994, ISBN 1 900988 18 6] They are written in the South Arabian script and date to the 3rd to 2nd centuries BC.

Refecences

*M. C. A. Macdonald, [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1600-0471.2000.aae110106.x Reflections on the linguistic map of pre-Islamic Arabia] , Arabian archaeology and epigraphy 11 (2000), 28-79.

External links

*http://www.uaeinteract.com/history/e_walk/con_3/con3_21.asp


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