Nabataean Arabic

Nabataean Arabic
Nabataean Arabic
Region	Levant, Sinai Peninsula and northwestern Arabia
Era	4th century BCE to 1st century CE
Language family	Afroasiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic North Arabian? Arabic Old Arabic Nabataean Arabic; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Nabataean
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None

Nabataean Arabic was the dialect of Arabic spoken by the Nabataeans in antiquity. It was succeeded by Paleo-Arabic.

In the first century AD, the Nabataeans wrote their inscriptions, such as the legal texts carved on the façades of the monumental tombs at Mada'in Salih, ancient Ḥegrā, in Nabataean Aramaic.

It is probable, however, that some or all of them, possibly in varying proportion depending on the region of the Nabataean Kingdom where they lived, spoke Arabic.^[1]

^ "Arabic in Context | Brill". www.brill.com. Archived from the original on 2017-06-21. Retrieved 2017-06-20.

[1] "Arabic in Context | Brill". www.brill.com. Archived from the original on 2017-06-21. Retrieved 2017-06-20.

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