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Hasaitic

Hasaitic is an Ancient North Arabian dialect attested in inscriptions in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia at Thaj, Hinna, Qatif, Ras Tanura, Abqaiq in the al-Hasa region, Ayn Jawan, Mileiha and at Uruk. It is written in the Monumental South Arabian script and dates from the 5th to 2nd centuries BC.

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Hasaitic
Hasaean1
Ancient funerary inscription tablet written in Hasaitic,2 5th-6th century CE. Tarout Island, Saudi Arabia.3
RegionArabia
Extinctmarginalized by Classical Arabic from the 7th century
Monumental South Arabian script
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
xna-has
Glottologhasa1249

Hasaitic is an Ancient North Arabian dialect attested in inscriptions in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia at Thaj,4 Hinna, Qatif, Ras Tanura, Abqaiq in the al-Hasa region, Ayn Jawan, Mileiha and at Uruk.5 It is written in the Monumental South Arabian script6 and dates from the 5th to 2nd centuries BC.

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  1. "Pre-Islamic North and East Arabian". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 1 May 2016. Retrieved 11 June 2025.
  2. "SHI 28 | OCIANA". ociana.osu.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  3. Cornwall, P. B. (1946). "Ancient Arabia: Explorations in Hasa, 1940-41". The Geographical Journal. 107 (1/2): 28–50. Bibcode:1946GeogJ.107...28C. doi:10.2307/1789083. ISSN 0016-7398. JSTOR 1789083.
  4. Højlund, Flemming; Garnier, Nicolas; Stein, Peter (2021). "Two inscribed wine amphoras from Thāj, Saudi Arabia". Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy. 32 (S1): 367–375. doi:10.1111/aae.12193. ISSN 1600-0471.
  5. William Facey, The Story of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, 1994, ISBN 1-900988-18-6
  6. Macdonald, M. C. A. (2000). "Reflections on the linguistic map of pre-Islamic Arabia". Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy. Vol. 11. pp. 28–79. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
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