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Safaitic (Arabic: ٱلصَّفَائِيَّة Al-Ṣafāʾiyyah) is a
variety of the
South Semitic scripts used by the
Arabs in
southern Syria and
northern Jordan in the...
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period as the
Safaitic, i.e.
first century BC to
fourth century AD,
though there is even less
dating evidence in the case of Hismaic.
Safaitic is the name...
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before Islam.
Various forms of Old
Arabic are
attested in
scripts like
Safaitic, Hismaic, Nabatean, and even Gr****. Alternatively, the term has been used...
- may have been used to
write Safaitic dialects of Old Arabic, but the
language of most
inscriptions differs from
Safaitic in a few
important respects,...
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Safaitic, and
Hismaic are attested. The last two
share important isoglosses with
later forms of Arabic,
leading scholars to
theorize that
Safaitic and...
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Petra and
Madain Saleh (of
which city he was the patron).[citation needed]
Safaitic inscriptions imply he was the son of the
goddess Al-Lat, and that he ****embled...
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studies and the
history of Arabic,
including recent work he has done on the
Safaitic and Paleo-Arabic scripts. He is
currently Professor in the
Sofia Chair...
- Al-Jallad, "Script and Orthography", An
Outline of the
Grammar of the
Safaitic Inscriptions (Brill, 2015), p. 26.
Michael Everson and
Michael Macdonald...
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northwestern part of the
Kingdom of Jordan. The
region appears in the
ancient Safaitic inscriptions. Balm of
Gilead Machir Machir (tribal group)
Shibboleth Tribe...
- well as
evidence of an
Arabic substratum in the
Nabataean language. The
Safaitic and
Hismaic inscriptions were
composed between the 1st
century BC and the...
