Ancient North Arabian
Ancient North Arabian (ANA) is a collection of scripts and a language or family of languages under the North Arabian languages branch along with Old Arabic that were used in north and central Arabia and south Syria from the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE. The term "Ancient North Arabian" is defined negatively. It refers to all of the South Semitic scripts except Ancient South Arabian (ASA) regardless of their genetic relationships.
| Ancient North Arabian | |
|---|---|
| Script type | |
Time period | 8th century BCE to 4th century CE |
| Languages | Dadanitic, Taymanitic, Dumaitic, Thamudic, Safaitic, Hismaic |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Proto-Sinaitic script
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Sister systems | Ancient South Arabian |
| ISO 15924 | |
| ISO 15924 | Narb (106), Old North Arabian (Ancient North Arabian) |
| Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Old North Arabian |
Unicode range | U+10A60–U+10A7F |
| Ancient North Arabian | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen |
| Region | Arabian Peninsula |
| Extinct | 6th century |
Afroasiatic
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Writing system | Ancient North Arabian |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xna |
Linguist List | xna |
| Glottolog | anci1245 |
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