Old Arabic

Old Arabic
Old Arabic
	Epitaph of Imru al-Qays ibn Amr (328 AD)
Region	Northwestern Arabian Peninsula and the southern Levant
Era	Early 1st millennium BCE to 7th century CE
Language family	Afroasiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Old Arabic; ; ; ;
Early form	Proto-Arabic
Writing system	Safaitic; Hismaic; Dadanitic; Nabataean; Phoenician; Arabic; Greek
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None

Old Arabic is the name for any Arabic language or dialect continuum before Islam. Various forms of Old Arabic are attested in scripts like Safaitic, Hismaic, Nabatean, and even Greek.

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