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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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before Islam.
Various forms of Old
Arabic are
attested in
scripts like
Safaitic, Hismaic, Nabatean, and even Gr****. Alternatively, the term has been used...
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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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roaming Bedouins visit it occasionally, in
addition to some archaeologists.
Safaitic inscriptions were
first discovered in this area in 1857, and were named...
- 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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region are Druze, and
there are also
significant Christian communities.
Safaitic inscriptions were
first found in this area. The
State of
Jabal Druze was...
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Arabian calendars reveal the use of a
number of
local calendars, as do
Safaitic inscriptions from the
Harran desert in
Syria and Jordan. At
least some...
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evidence of an
Arabic substratum in the
Nabataean language. The
Safaitic and
Hismaic inscriptions were
composed between the 1st
century BC and the...
