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2604: 2288: 3025: 1525:"ʿIgl son of Hafʿam constructed for his brother Rabibil son of Hafʿam the tomb: both for him and for his child and his wife, and his children and their children's children and womenfolk, free members of the folk Ghalwan. And he has placed it under the protection of (the gods) Kahl and Lah and ʿAthtar al-Shariq from anyone strong or weak, and anyone who would attempt to sell or pledge it, for all time without any derogation, so long as the sky produces rain or the earth herbage." 2280:, scribes realized that working out which of the ambiguous letters a particular letter was from context was laborious and not always possible, so a proper remedy was required. Writings in the Nabataean and Syriac alphabets already had sporadic examples of dots being used to distinguish letters which had become identical, for example as in the table on the right. By analogy with this, a system of dots was added to the Arabic alphabet to make enough different letters for 6126: 1019: 890: 546: 675: 503: 417: 1690:"This is the funerary monument of Imru' al-Qays, son of 'Amr, king of the Arabs, and (?) his title of honour was Master of Asad and Madhhij. And he subdued the Asadis and they were overwhelmed together with their kings, and he put to flight Madhhij thereafter, and came driving them to the gates of Najran, the city of Shammar, and he subdued Ma'add, and he dealt gently with the nobles of the tribes, and appointed them viceroys, and they became 331: 1145: 1188: 1059: 847: 804: 761: 718: 460: 24: 1317: 1274: 1231: 976: 933: 632: 1102: 589: 3084: 436: 522: 995: 952: 1293: 694: 1164: 909: 866: 823: 651: 479: 1207: 1078: 1038: 780: 565: 737: 608: 1336: 1121: 1250: 1605:"This is the memorial of Julianos, weighed down by long sleep, for whom his father Agathos built it while shedding a tear beside the boundary of the communal cemetery of the people of Christ, in order that a better people might always sing of him openly, being formerly the beloved faithful of Agathos the presbyter, aged twelve. In the year 239 ." (Trombley) 2334:). In this numerical order, the new letters were put at the end of the alphabet. This produced this order: alif (1), b (2), j (3), d (4), h (5), w (6), z (7), H (8), T (9), y (10), k (20), l (30), m (40), n (50), s (60), ayn (70), f (80), S (90), q (100), r (200), sh (300), t (400), th (500), dh (600), kh (700), D (800), Z (900), gh (1000). 275:. The table below shows changes undergone by the shapes of the letters from the Aramaic original to the Nabataean and Syriac forms. The Arabic script shown is that of post-Classical and Modern Arabic—notably different from 6th century Arabic script. (Arabic is placed in the middle for clarity and not to mark a time order of evolution.) 1651:"This is a grave K b. H has taken care of for his mother, Raqush bint ʿA. She died in al-Hijr in the year 162 in the month of Tammuz. May the Lord of the world curse anyone who desecrates this grave and opens it up, except his offspring! May he curse anyone who buries and removes from it! May who buries.... be cursed!" 305:
In the 2nd or 1st centuries BCE, the first known records of the Nabataean alphabet were written in the Aramaic language (which was the language of communication and trade), but included some Arabic language features: the Nabataeans did not write the language which they spoke. They wrote in a form of
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Less than a century later, Arab grammarians reorganized the alphabet, for reasons of teaching, putting letters next to other letters which were nearly the same shape. This produced a new order which was not the same as the numeric order, which became less important over time because it was being
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Cursive Nabataean writing changed into Arabic writing, likeliest between the dates of the an-Namāra inscription and the Jabal Ramm inscription. Most writing would have been on perishable materials, such as papyrus. As it was cursive, it was liable to change. The
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Here the Arabic letters are listed in the traditional Levantine order but are written in their current forms, for simplicity. The letters which are the same shape have coloured backgrounds. The second value of the letters that represent more than one
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A large funerary stone is inscribed in the Hasaean dialect using a variety of South Arabian monumental script, with three inscribed lines for the man Matmat, that records both patrilineal and matriarchal descent:
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alphabet, and local adaptations of the Arabic alphabet were abandoned. In many cases, the writing of a language in Arabic script has become restricted to classical texts and traditional purposes (as in the
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has demonstrated the transition of scripts from the Nabataean Aramaic to the recognisably Arabic form that appears to have occurred between the third and fifth centuries CE, replacing the indigenous Arabic
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As cursive Nabataean writing evolved into Arabic writing, the writing became largely joined-up. Some of the letters became the same shape as other letters, producing more ambiguities, as in the table:
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In the 5th century barracks were built. In their southeast tower, which stands to a height of six stories, the names of the archangels—"Michael, Uriel, Gabriel and Raphael"—are inscribed. (Micah Key)
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are very few, with only 5 known for certain. They mostly use no dots, making them sometimes difficult to interpret, as many letters are the same shape as other letters (they are written with
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When the Arabic alphabet spread to countries which used other languages, extra letters had to be invented to spell non-Arabic sounds. Usually the alteration was three dots above like
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for the Romans. And no king has equalled his achievements. Thereafter he died in the year 223 on the 7th day of Kaslul. Oh the good fortune of those who were his friends!" (Bellamy)
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sounds: as the corresponding dentals but with a small letter ط above. (This problem in adapting a Semitic alphabet to write Indian languages also arose long before this: see
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Below are descriptions of inscriptions found in the Arabic alphabet, and the inscriptions found in the Nabataean alphabet that show the beginnings of Arabic-like features.
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or nothing, lengthening an adjacent vowel, or, intervocalically, dropping the glottal stop and contracting the vowels. Thus, Arabic grammarians invented the
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There are broadly two standards for Pashto orthography, the Afghan orthography in Afghanistan and the Peshawar orthography in Pakistan where
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When new signs were added to the Arabic alphabet, they took the alphabetical order value of the letter which they were an alternative for:
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The Arabic grammarians of North Africa changed the new letters, which explains the differences between the alphabets of the East and the
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were added, beginning some time in the last half of the 6th century, at about the same time as the first invention of Syriac and Hebrew
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The alphabet then had 28 letters, and so could be used to write the numbers 1 to 10, then 20 to 100, then 200 to 900, then 1000 (see
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When a letter was at the end of a word, it often developed an end loop, and as a result most Arabic letters have two or more shapes.
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dropped out between vowels was in some dialects pronounced at the ends of words with the tongue further forward than for other
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Kitab Wafayat Ala'yan. Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary Transl. by (Guillaume) B(aro)n Mac-Guckin de Slane. Vol 1-3
369:. The version of the Arabic alphabet used includes only 21 letters, of which only 15 are different, being used to note 28 4344:. Muḥammad Maghrāwī, مغراوي، محمد. (al-Ṭabʻah 1 ed.). al-Dār al-Bayḍāʼ: Wizārat al-Awqāf wa-al-Shuʼūn al-Islāmīyah. 220: 186: 5125: 3199: 4489: 4413: 4204: 4108: 4079: 3127: 107: 3109: 4504: 3263: 4071:
The Development of the Arabic Scripts: From the Nabatean Era to the First Islamic Century According to Dated Texts
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After all this, there were only 17 letters that were different in shape. One letter-shape represented 5 phonemes (
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A brief history of the Arabic script with emphasis on diacritical points, vowel markers and alphabet arrangements
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This order is much the oldest. The first written records of the Arabic alphabet show why the order was changed.
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In the 6th and 5th centuries BCE, northern Arab tribes emigrated and founded a kingdom centred around
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Record of a military expedition by Ibrahim ibn Mughirah on behalf of the king al-Harith, presumably
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The Arabic alphabet evolved either from the Nabataean, or (less widely believed) directly from the
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in fairly late pre-Islamic times, but this seems not to have happened in those tribes who invaded
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The first surviving document that definitely uses these dots is also the first surviving Arabic
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the Aramaic alphabet, which continued to evolve; it separated into two forms: one intended for
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Many thousands of pre-Classical Arabic inscriptions are attested, in alphabets borrowed from
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Includes diacritical points associated with Arabic letters ب, ت, and ن . (Winnett and Reed)
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had the most influence on the standardization of Arabic script. They were associated with
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collapsed and European influence increased, many non-Arab Islamic areas began using the
6081: 5767: 5683: 5480: 5405: 5144: 5130: 4457:"في يوم اللغة العربية، الخط العربي حضارة تركت معالمها على أطراف الصين وحتى غرب أفريقيا" 4020: 3741: 3474: 3224: 3174: 2618:. If the letters are arranged by their numeric order, the Levantine order is restored: 1951:. It records Sharahil ibn Zalim building the martyrium a year after the destruction of 1921: 1660: 1394: 389: 233: 5150: 4947: 4929: 4722: 5828: 5501: 5441: 5204: 5096: 5007: 4650: 4485: 4419: 4355: 4345: 4200: 4131: 4104: 4075: 3954: 3169: 3047: 2361: 1830: 1562:"فيفعﻞُﻻفِ ًداوﻻاثرافكاﻦ هُنايَبْ ِغنا الموﺖُﻻأبْ ُغاﻪ فكاﻦ هُنا أدادَ ُجرﺢٌﻻيرْ ِد" 350: 150: 5581: 5111: 4938: 2603: 2337:
The lack of vowel signs in Arabic writing created more ambiguities: for example, in
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The Arabic alphabet is first attested in its classical form in the 7th century. See
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was unheard-of in the area and every copy of every book had to be written by hand.
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The old alphabetical order, as in the other alphabets shown here, is known as the
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Windows on the House of Islam: Muslim Sources on Spirituality and Religious Life
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Preclassical Arabic inscriptions dating to the 1st century BC from Qaryat Al-Faw
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that was phonemically and orthographically standardized later. These include:
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Arabic script reached a climax in aesthetics and geographic spread under the
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Some features of the Arabic alphabet arose because of differences between
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alphabets (however, Safaitic and Hismaic are not strictly Arabic, but
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It seems that the Nabataean alphabet became the Arabic alphabet thus:
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The first known recorded text in the Arabic alphabet is known as the
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Hallikan, 'Abu-l-'Abbas Sams-al-din 'Ahmad ibn Muhammad Ibn (1843).
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p.93, "The Koran, A Very Short Introduction" by Michael Cook, publ
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A prayer of thanks to the god Obodas for saving someone's life:
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Nabataean, some letter-joining. Has a few diacritic dots.
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does not count as a letter separate from the single one.
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script at first, which was then developed along with the
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Table comparing Nabataean and Syriac forms of /d/ and /r/
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vowels, and as a result in the Qu'ran it was written as
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dialects, and written Nabataean is an Aramaic dialect):
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An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions
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Rose, Christopher; al-Jallad, Ahmad (27 April 2016).
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All administrative texts were previously recorded by
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record is extremely sparse, with only five certainly
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al-Khaṭṭ al-Maghribī : tārīkh wa-wāqiʻ wa-āfāq
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"God" is written as 1677:Nabataean, more letter-joining than previous 187: 4337: 4324: 4196:Petra and the Lost Kingdom of the Nabataeans 4177:"Nabatean Language, Script and Inscriptions" 3065: 2969: 2959: 2924: 2914: 2879: 2869: 2834: 2824: 2789: 2779: 2744: 2734: 2699: 2689: 2654: 2644: 2454:: This arose because, in many dialects, the 2422:(see also below) took the value of ordinary 1859: 1753:Arabic, some Nabataean features, & dots 4101:A Brief Introduction to The Arabic Alphabet 4094: 3019: 2530:was decided before the Arabs started using 244:, which among others also gave rise to the 4532: 4518: 4373:Yūsofī, Ḡolām-Ḥosayn (December 15, 1990). 2575:sign and used it to mark the glottal stop. 194: 180: 4242: 4067: 3128:Learn how and when to remove this message 1579:roughly end of 3rd century - 5th century 1347: 1304: 1261: 1218: 1175: 1132: 1089: 1046: 1006: 963: 920: 877: 834: 791: 748: 705: 662: 619: 576: 533: 490: 447: 108:Learn how and when to remove this message 4438: 4097:"II - The Origin of the Arabic Alphabet" 3023: 2538:. In other cases (for example the first 2286: 2224: 2220: 1684:for the famous Arab poet and war-leader 1641:Last inscription in Nabataean language. 329: 1854:Christian dedicatory. The Arabic says " 1554:Nabataean with a little letter-joining 1399:Pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions in the 1380:in the southern parts of central Arabia 221:question marks, boxes, or other symbols 6143: 4411: 4372: 4192: 4123: 1473:3. "nas, her of the father of Sa'ad-" 4513: 4236: 3808:Since the early 20th century, as the 1551:3 lines Aramaic, then 3 lines Arabic 4130:. U of Nebraska Press. p. 100. 3077: 2980: 2935: 2890: 2845: 2800: 2755: 2710: 2665: 1470:2. "son of Zurubbat, those of 'Ah-" 1467:1. "Tombstone and grave of Matmat," 46:adding citations to reliable sources 17: 4539: 4389:"Ibn Muqlah | Islamic calligrapher" 3804:Decline in use by non-Arabic states 3724: 3716: 3700: 3066: 2970: 2960: 2925: 2915: 2880: 2870: 2835: 2825: 2790: 2780: 2745: 2735: 2700: 2690: 2655: 2645: 2107:is after a comma. In these tables, 1860: 1588:More than 50 fragments discovered: 375: 13: 6117:Languages between parentheses are 4418:. University of California Press. 3868:Some constituent republics in the 3032:featuring marble lettering in the 2602: 1718:3 lines in Arabic, 1 bent line in 1511:A tomb dedicatory and a prayer to 1374:(over 13,000; almost all graffiti) 14: 6172: 4498: 4174: 4023:government after the fall of the 2356:="books". Later, vowel signs and 2119:sound seems to have changed into 1724:Arabic. Has some diacritic dots. 1715:3rd or likelier late 4th century 6125: 6124: 4014:(Latin system with alterations) 3082: 2212: 2089: 1582:Aramaic-Nabataean, Greek, Latin 1334: 1315: 1291: 1272: 1248: 1229: 1205: 1186: 1162: 1143: 1119: 1100: 1076: 1057: 1036: 1017: 993: 974: 950: 931: 907: 888: 864: 845: 821: 802: 778: 759: 735: 716: 692: 673: 649: 630: 606: 587: 563: 544: 520: 501: 477: 458: 434: 415: 57:"History of the Arabic alphabet" 22: 4474: 4449: 4432: 4405: 4381: 4366: 4270: 3795:‎ instead of the Afghani 2485:(alif maksura ى) used to spell 2205:), one represented 3 phonemes ( 2063:, the choice was influenced by 1971:pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions 1585:Nabataean, much letter-joining 326:Pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions 33:needs additional citations for 6121:of the language on their left. 4338:Afā, ʻUmar; افا، عمر. (2007). 4252: 4213: 4186: 4168: 4144: 4117: 4088: 4061: 3878:-based spelling system, later 3747:This book shows an example of 3038:script, a style attributed to 2580:Reorganization of the alphabet 2291:Facsimile of a letter sent by 1593:2. "aynū daughter of MuΉārib" 1: 4224:. University of Texas, Austin 4074:. Scholars Press. p. 1. 4054: 3070:), or "proportioned script." 2240:The Quran was transcribed in 4616:Ancient South Arabian script 4583:Influence on other languages 4068:Gruendler, Beatrice (1993). 2163:except at the ends of words. 1977:Phonemes / letters inventory 1926:in Leija district, south of 1688:, describing his war deeds: 7: 5873: 4958: 4949: 4940: 4931: 4922: 4913: 4904: 4895: 4886: 4877: 4868: 4858: 4850: 4840: 4832: 4823: 4814: 4805: 4796: 4786: 4778: 4768: 4760: 4751: 4741: 4733: 4724: 4715: 4656: 4412:Renard, John (1998-06-18). 4199:. I.B.Tauris. p. 152. 4032: 3872:, especially Muslim States 3108:the claims made and adding 240:, which descended from the 10: 6177: 3395: 3334: 3293: 3269: 2990: 2945: 2900: 2855: 2810: 2765: 2720: 2675: 2458:ending of feminine nouns ( 2388:, and doubled dots giving 2095: 1616:(this is not a place-name) 290:. These people (now named 266: 6104: 6097:Islam and Arabic language 6090: 6025: 5912: 5842: 5821: 5746: 5664: 5646: 5607: 5500: 5460: 5427: 5418: 5391: 5351: 5342: 5316: 5203: 5063: 5054: 5045: 5024: 4978: 4969: 4706: 4591: 4548: 4243:Al-Jallad, Ahmad (2015). 4124:Senner, Wayne M. 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