| South Arabian Alphabet |
Article Index for South |
Website Links For South |
Information AboutSouth Arabian Alphabet |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT SOUTH ARABIAN ALPHABET | |
| abjad writing systems | |
| history of yemen | |
|
The ancient South Arabian alphabet (also known as '''musnad''') branched from the Proto-Sinaitic Alphabet in ca. the 13th Century BC . It was used for writing the Old South Arabian dialects of the Sabaean and Minaean kingdoms on the southern Arabian Peninsula . Early forms dating to the 8th Century BC are found in Babylonia . Its mature form was reached around 500 BC , and its use continued until the 7th Century , when it was displaced by the Arabic Alphabet . The alphabet spread to Ethiopia , where it evolved into the Ge'ez Alphabet , the basis of the modern Amharic , Tigrinya and Tigre alphabet. SIGN INVENTORY EXTERNAL LINKS
|
|
|