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Safaitic (Arabic: ٱلصَّفَائِيَّة Al-Ṣafāʾiyyah) is a
variety of the
South Semitic scripts used by the
Arabs in
southern Syria and
northern Jordan in Ḥarrah...
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period as the
Safaitic, i.e.
first century BC to
fourth century AD,
though there is even less
dating evidence in the case of Hismaic.
Safaitic is the name...
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before Islam.
Various forms of Old
Arabic are
attested in
scripts like
Safaitic, Hismaic, Nabatean, and even Gr****. More occasionally, the term is used...
- well as
evidence of an
Arabic substratum in the
Nabataean language. The
Safaitic and
Hismaic inscriptions were
composed between the 1st
century BC and the...
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Petra and
Madain Saleh (of
which city he was the patron).[citation needed]
Safaitic inscriptions imply he was the son of Al-Lat, and that he ****embled in the...
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Safaitic, and
Hismaic are attested. The last two
share important isoglosses with
later forms of Arabic,
leading scholars to
theorize that
Safaitic and...
- may have been used to
write Safaitic dialects of Old Arabic, but the
language of most
inscriptions differs from
Safaitic in a few
important respects,...
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studies and the
History of Arabic,
including recent work he has done on the
Safaitic and Paleo-Arabic scripts. He is
currently Professor in the
Sofia Chair...
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region are Druze, and
there are also
significant Christian communities.
Safaitic inscriptions were
first found in this area. The
State of
Jabal Druze was...
- AD in the Gr****
alphabet in a
dialect showing affinities to that of the
Safaitic inscriptions shows that
short final high
vowels had been lost in at least...
