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.^[1] It is written in the Monumental South Arabian script^[2] and dates from the 5th to 2nd centuries BC.

Hasaitic
Region	Arabia
Extinct	marginalized by Classical Arabic from the 7th century^[citation needed]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic North Arabian? Old Arabic^[citation needed] Hasaitic
Writing system	Monumental South Arabian script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	hasa1249

Notes

1. William Facey, The Story of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, 1994, ISBN 1-900988-18-6
2. 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.

External links

• http://www.uaeinteract.com/history/e_walk/con_3/con3_21.asp 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine