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Nabataean Arabic (or Nabataeo-Arabic) was a predecessor of the Arabic alphabet. It evolved from Nabataean Aramaic , first entering use in the late third century AD. It continued to be used into the mid-fifth century, after which the script evolves into a new phase known as Paleo-Arabic .
The Nabataean alphabet was designed to write 22 phonemes, but Arabic has 28 consonant phonemes; thus, when used to write the Arabic language, 6 of its letters must each represent two phonemes: d also represented ð, ħ also represented kh %, ṭ also represented ẓ, ʕ also represented gh %, ṣ also represented ḍ %, t also represented θ.
The Nabataeans were an Arab tribe who had come under significant Babylonian-Aramaean influence. [9] The first mention of the Nabataeans dates from 312/311 BC, when they were attacked at Sela or perhaps at Petra without success by Antigonus I's officer Athenaeus in the course of the Third War of the Diadochi; at that time Hieronymus of Cardia, a Seleucid officer, mentioned the Nabataeans in a ...
The Nabataean script is an abjad (consonantal alphabet) that was used to write Nabataean Aramaic and Nabataean Arabic from the second century BC onwards. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Important inscriptions are found in Petra (now in Jordan ), the Sinai Peninsula (now part of Egypt ), and other archaeological sites including Abdah (in Israel ) and Mada'in Saleh ...
Nabataean language may refer to: Nabataean Aramaic, a Western Aramaic variety that was the written language of the Nabataean kingdom; Nabataean Arabic, the dialect of Arabic spoken by the Nabataeans; Eastern Aramaic varieties that were referred to by the Muslim Arabs as "Nabataean"
Western Aramaic is a group of Aramaic dialects [4] [5] once spoken widely throughout the ancient Levant, predominantly in the south, and Sinai, including ancient Damascus, Nabatea, Judea, across the Palestine Region, Transjordan, Samaria as well as Lebanon and the basins of the Orontes as far as Aleppo in the north.
"A glimpse of the development of the Nabataean script into Arabic based on old and new epigraphic material". In MacDonald, Michael C.A. (ed.). The development of Arabic as a written language: Papers from the special session of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held on 24 July, 2009. Archaeopress. pp. 47–88. Nehmé, Laila (2017).
This category is intended for all articles and categories concerning all and every aspects of ancient Nabataea: the kingdom, rulers, people, language, religion, etc. Subcategories This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.