Hasaitic

Hasaitic
Hasaean [1]
Ancient funerary inscription tablet written in Hasaitic, [2] 5th-6th century CE. Tarout Island, Saudi Arabia. [3]
Region	Arabia
Extinct	marginalized by Classical Arabic from the 7th century[ citation needed ]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic North Arabian? Old Arabic [ citation needed ] Hasaitic
Writing system	Monumental South Arabian script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	xna-has
Glottolog	hasa1249

Hasaitic is an Ancient 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. ^[4] It is written in the Monumental South Arabian script ^[5] and dates from the 5th to 2nd centuries BC.

Notes

1. "Pre-Islamic North and East Arabian". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 1 May 2016. Retrieved 11 June 2025.
2. "SHI 28 | OCIANA". ociana.osu.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
3. Cornwall, P. B. (1946). "Ancient Arabia: Explorations in Hasa, 1940-41" . The Geographical Journal. 107 (1/2): 28–50. Bibcode:1946GeogJ.107...28C. doi:10.2307/1789083. ISSN   0016-7398. JSTOR   1789083.
4. William Facey, The Story of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, 1994, ISBN   1-900988-18-6
5. Macdonald, M. C. A. (2000). "Reflections on the linguistic map of pre-Islamic Arabia". Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy. Vol. 11. pp. 28–79. Retrieved 28 July 2014.

External links

• http://www.uaeinteract.com/history/e_walk/con_3/con3_21.asp Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine