Ancient South Arabian script

Ancient South Arabian script
Ancient South Arabian script;
Script type	Abjad
Time period	Late 2nd millennium BCE to 6th century CE
Direction	Right-to-left, boustrophedon
Languages	Old South Arabian, Ge'ez
Related scripts
Parent systems	Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic South Semitic Ancient South Arabian script; ; ;
Child systems	Geʽez
Sister systems	Ancient North Arabian
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Sarb (105), Old South Arabian
Unicode
Unicode alias	Old South Arabian
Unicode range	U+10A60–U+10A7F
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The Ancient South Arabian script (Old South Arabian: 𐩣𐩯𐩬𐩵 ms³nd; modern Arabic: الْمُسْنَد musnad) branched from the Proto-Sinaitic script in about the late 2nd millennium BCE, and remained in use through the late sixth century CE. It is an abjad, a writing system where only consonants are obligatorily written, a trait shared with its predecessor, Proto-Sinaitic, as well as some of its sibling writing systems, including Arabic and Hebrew. It is a predecessor of the Ge'ez script, and a sibling script of the Phoenician alphabet and, through that, the modern Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek alphabets.

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^ Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William, eds. (1996). The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press, Inc. pp. 89, 98, 569–570. ISBN 978-0195079937.
^ Gragg, Gene (2004). "Ge'ez (Aksum)". In Woodard, Roger D. (ed.). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Cambridge University Press. p. 431. ISBN 0-521-56256-2.

[WorldsWritingSystems89-1] Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William, eds. (1996). The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press, Inc. pp. 89, 98, 569–570. ISBN 978-0195079937.

[CambridgeAncientLanguages431-2] Gragg, Gene (2004). "Ge'ez (Aksum)". In Woodard, Roger D. (ed.). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Cambridge University Press. p. 431. ISBN 0-521-56256-2.

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