Information about Nabatean Alphabet

Nabataean
TypeAbjad
LanguagesNabataean language
Time period2nd century BC to 4th century AD
Parent systemsProto-Canaanite alphabet
 → Phoenician alphabet
  → Aramaic alphabet
   → Syriac alphabet
    → Nabataean
Child systemsArabic alphabet


History of the alphabet
Middle Bronze Age 18–15th c. BC
Meroitic 3rd c. BC
Hangul 1443
Zhuyin 1913
complete genealogy
The Nabatean alphabet is a consonantal alphabet (abjad) that was used by the Nabateans in the 2nd century BC. Important inscriptions are found in Petra. The alphabet is descended from the Aramaic alphabet via the Syriac alphabet. It in turn developed into the Arabic alphabet from the 4th century, which is why its letterforms are intermediate between the more northerly Semitic scripts (such as the Hebrew) and Arabic.

Nabatean Name Arabic
Alphabet
Hebrew
Alphabet
Aleph??
Bet??
Gimel??
Dal??
Ha??
Waw??
Zayn??
Ħa??
Ṭaa??
Yaa??
Kaf??
Lam??
Meem??
Noon??
Sinﺳ?ש?
'inﻋ??
Faﻓ??
Ṣad??
Qaf??
Ra??
Shin?ש?
Ta??

See also

The Northwest Semitic abjad
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historyPhoenicianAramaicHebrewSyriacArabic
Abjad is a term suggested by Peter T. Daniels [1] to replace the common terms consonantary or consonantal alphabet or syllabary to refer to the family of scripts called West Semitic, a type of writing system in which each symbol stands for a
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Nabataean language was a semitic language and was spoken by the Nabataeans.

The language of the Nabataean inscriptions, attested from the 2nd century BC, shows a local development of the Aramaic language, which had ceased to have super-regional importance after the collapse
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Proto-Canaanite alphabet

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The Proto-Canaanite alphabet is an abjad of twenty-plus acrophonic glyphs, found in Levantine texts of the Late Bronze Age (from ca.
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Phoenician alphabet
Child systems Paleo-Hebrew alphabet
Aramaic alphabet
Greek alphabet
Many hypothesized others
Sister systems South Arabian alphabet
Unicode range U+10900 to U+1091F
ISO 15924 Phnx

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Aramaic alphabet
Child systems Hebrew
Nabataean
Syriac
Palmyrenean
Mandaic
Brāhmī
Pahlavi
Sogdian
Kharoṣṭhī

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Syriac alphabet
Child systems Sogdian   →Orkhon (Turkic)
    →Old Hungarian
  →Uyghur
    →Mongolian
Nabataean
  → Arabic
Georgian (disputed)
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Arabic abjad

Unicode range U+0600 to U+06FF
U+0750 to U+077F
U+FB50 to U+FDFF
U+FE70 to U+FEFF
ISO 15924 Arab (#160)

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International Phonetic Alphabet

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The International
Phonetic Alphabet
History
Nonstandard symbols
Extended IPA
Naming conventions
IPA for English The
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Unicode is an industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in any of the world's writing systems. Developed in tandem with the Universal Character Set standard and published in book form as The Unicode Standard
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The history of the alphabet begins in Ancient Egypt, more than a millennium into the history of writing. The first pure alphabet emerged around 2000 BCE to represent the language of Semitic workers in Egypt (see Middle Bronze Age alphabets), and was derived from the
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Middle Bronze Age alphabets are two similar undeciphered scripts, dated to be from the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1500 BCE), and believed to be ancestral to nearly all modern alphabets:
  • the Proto-Sinaitic

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The Ugaritic alphabet is a cuneiform abjad (alphabet without vowels), used from around 1500 BC for the Ugaritic language, an extinct Canaanite language discovered in Ugarit, Syria. It has 31 distinct letters.
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Proto-Canaanite alphabet

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The Proto-Canaanite alphabet is an abjad of twenty-plus acrophonic glyphs, found in Levantine texts of the Late Bronze Age (from ca.
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Phoenician alphabet
Child systems Paleo-Hebrew alphabet
Aramaic alphabet
Greek alphabet
Many hypothesized others
Sister systems South Arabian alphabet
Unicode range U+10900 to U+1091F
ISO 15924 Phnx

Note
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Paleo-Hebrew alphabet

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The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet also know as Ktav Ivri is an offshoot of the Phoenician alphabet used to write the Hebrew language from about the 10th century BCE until it began to
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Aramaic alphabet
Child systems Hebrew
Nabataean
Syriac
Palmyrenean
Mandaic
Brāhmī
Pahlavi
Sogdian
Kharoṣṭhī

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History of the alphabet
Middle Bronze Age 18–15th c. BC
  • Ugaritic 15th c. BC
  • Proto-Canaanite 14th c. BC
  • Phoenician 11th c. BC
  • Paleo-Hebrew 10th c.

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Tibetan

ISO 15924 Tibt

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The Tibetan script
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Khmer
Child systems Thai
Lao
Sister systems Old Mon (Burmese)

ISO 15924 Khmr

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Java

Sister systems Balinese
Batak
Baybayin
Buhid
Hanunó'o
Rejang
Tagbanwa

ISO 15924 Java

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Syriac alphabet
Child systems Sogdian   →Orkhon (Turkic)
    →Old Hungarian
  →Uyghur
    →Mongolian
Nabataean
  → Arabic
Georgian (disputed)
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Arabic abjad

Unicode range U+0600 to U+06FF
U+0750 to U+077F
U+FB50 to U+FDFF
U+FE70 to U+FEFF
ISO 15924 Arab (#160)

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Avestan

ISO 15924 Avst

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The Avestan alphabet is a writing system developed during the Sassanid era (226-651) to render the Avestan language.
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Greek alphabet
Child systems Gothic
Glagolitic
Cyrillic
Coptic
Old Italic alphabet
Latin alphabet

ISO 15924 Grek

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Old Italic
Child systems Latin alphabet, Runic alphabet
Sister systems Anatolian alphabets

ISO 15924 Ital

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Latin alphabet
Child systems Numerous: see Alphabets derived from the Latin
Sister systems Cyrillic
Coptic
Armenian
Runic/Futhark
Unicode range See Latin characters in Unicode
ISO 15924 Latn

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Runic
Child systems Younger Futhark, Anglo-Saxon Futhorc

ISO 15924 Runr

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The Runic alphabets are a set of related alphabets using letters (known as runes
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Ogham (Old Irish: Ogam) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to represent the "Old Irish" language.
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Gothic

ISO 15924 Goth

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The Gothic alphabet is an alphabetic writing system attributed by Philostorgius to Wulfila, used exclusively for writing the ancient Gothic language.
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