Old Arabic
Earliest attested stage of the Arabic language / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old Arabic is the name for any Arabic language or dialect continuum before Islam.[1] Various forms of Old Arabic are attested in scripts like Safaitic, Hismaic, Nabatean, and even Greek.[2]
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Old Arabic | |
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Region | Northwestern Arabian Peninsula and the southern Levant |
Era | Early 1st millennium BCE to 7th century CE |
Early form | |
Safaitic Hismaic Dadanitic Nabataean Phoenician Arabic Greek | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | None |
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More occasionally, the term is used to refer to Paleo-Arabic, which refers to the formation of the Arabic script in the fifth and sixth centuries.[3]