Safaitic
Sign in to saveSafaitic ( Al-Ṣafāʾiyyah) is a variety of the South Semitic scripts that was used by the Arabs in southern Syria and northern Jordan in the Ḥarrah region, to carve rock inscriptions in various dialects of Old Arabic and Ancient North Arabian. The Safaitic script is a member of the Ancient North Arabian (ANA) sub-grouping of the South Semitic script family, the genetic unity of which has yet to be demonstrated.
Key facts
- Writing system.type
- Abjad
- Writing system.languages
- Old Arabic
- Writing system.fam1
- Proto-Sinaitic script
- Writing system.fam2
- South Semitic script
- Writing system.sisters
- Ancient North Arabian, Ancient South Arabian script, Ge'ez script
- Writing system.name
- Safaitic
- Writing system.time
- 3rd century BCE to 4th century CE
- Language.name
- Safaitic
- Language.altname
- Safa'itic
- Language.region
- Syria
- Language.era
- 3rd century BCE to 4th century CE
- Language.script
- Safaitic
- Language.familycolor
- Afro-Asiatic
- Language.fam1
- Afroasiatic
- Language.fam2
- Semitic
- Language.fam3
- West Semitic
- Language.fam4
- Central Semitic
- Language.fam5
- North Arabian?
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- dialect
- Subclass of
- Ancient North Arabian
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- Ancient North Arabian
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- Safaitic
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Safaitic ( Al-Ṣafāʾiyyah) is a variety of the South Semitic scripts that was used by the Arabs in southern Syria and northern Jordan in the Ḥarrah region, to carve rock inscriptions in various dialects of Old Arabic and Ancient North Arabian. The Safaitic script is a member of the Ancient North Arabian (ANA) sub-grouping of the South Semitic script family, the genetic unity of which has yet to be demonstrated.
The first attempt at a comprehensive Safaitic dictionary was published in 2019 by Ahmad Al-Jallad and Karolina Jaworska. thumb|Safaitic script with a figure of a camel on a red sandstone fragment, from es-Safa, currently housed in the British Museum
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Safaitic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.