Ancient North Arabian

Ancient North Arabian
Ancient North Arabian
Native to	Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen
Region	Arabian Peninsula
Extinct	6th century
Language family	Afroasiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic North Arabian Ancient North Arabian; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Ancient North Arabian
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xna
Linguist List	xna
Glottolog	anci1245

Ancient North Arabian
Ancient North Arabian;
Script type	Abjad
Time period	8th century BCE to 4th century CE
Languages	Dadanitic, Taymanitic, Dumaitic, Thamudic, Safaitic, Hismaic
Related scripts
Parent systems	Proto-Sinaitic script South Semitic script Ancient North Arabian; ;
Sister systems	Ancient South Arabian
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Narb (106), Old North Arabian (Ancient North Arabian)
Unicode
Unicode alias	Old North Arabian
Unicode range	U+10A60–U+10A7F

Ancient North Arabian (ANA)^[1]^[2] is a collection of scripts and a language or family of languages^[3] under the North Arabian languages branch along with Old Arabic that were used in north and central Arabia and south Syria from the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE.^[4] The term "Ancient North Arabian" is defined negatively. It refers to all of the South Semitic scripts except Ancient South Arabian (ASA) regardless of their genetic relationships.^[5]

^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World. Elsevier. 2010. p. 931. ISBN 978-0-08-087775-4.
^ Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier. 24 November 2005. ISBN 978-0-08-054784-8.
^ Macdonald, M. C. A. (2004). "Ancient North Arabian". In Woodard, Roger D. (ed.). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Cambridge University Press. pp. 488–533. ISBN 0-521-56256-2.
^ Ahmad Al-Jallad, What is Ancient North Arabian?^{[permanent dead link]}, p. 4 n8.

[1] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[2] Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World. Elsevier. 2010. p. 931. ISBN 978-0-08-087775-4.

[3] Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier. 24 November 2005. ISBN 978-0-08-054784-8.

[CambridgeEncyclopedia-4] Macdonald, M. C. A. (2004). "Ancient North Arabian". In Woodard, Roger D. (ed.). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Cambridge University Press. pp. 488–533. ISBN 0-521-56256-2.

[5] Ahmad Al-Jallad, What is Ancient North Arabian?^{[permanent dead link]}, p. 4 n8.

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