Nabatean alphabet

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Nabataean
Type Abjad
Languages Nabataean language
Time period 2nd century BC to 4th century AD
Parent systems Proto-Canaanite alphabet
 → Phoenician alphabet
  → Aramaic alphabet
   → Syriac alphabet
    → Nabataean
Child systems Arabic alphabet
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.
History of the alphabet

Middle Bronze Age 19th c. BCE
Meroitic 3rd c. BCE
Ogham 4th c.
Hangul 1443
Canadian Syllabics 1840
Zhuyin 1913
complete genealogy

The Nabatean alphabet is a consonantal alphabet (abjad) that was used by the Nabateans in the 2nd century BC. Important inscriptions are found in Petra. The alphabet is descended from the Aramaic alphabet via the Syriac alphabet. It in turn developed into the Arabic alphabet from the 4th century, which is why its letterforms are intermediate between the more northerly Semitic scripts (such as the Hebrew) and Arabic.

Nabatean Name Arabic
Alphabet		 Hebrew
Alphabet
Aleph ﺍ א
Bet ﺑ ב
Gimel ﺟ ג
Dal ﺩ ד
Ha ﻫ ה
Waw ﻭ ו
Zayn ﺯ ז
Ħa ﺣ ח
Ṭaa ﻁ ט
Yaa ﻯ י
Kaf ﻛ כ
Lam ﻟ ל
Meem ﻣ מ
Noon ﻧ נ
Sin ﺳׂ שׂ
'in ﻋـ ע
Fa ﻓـ פ
Ṣad ﺻ צ
Qaf ﻕ ק
Ra ﺭ ר
Shin ﺷ שׁ
Ta ﺕ ת

The Northwest Semitic abjad
ʾ b g d h w z ḥ ṭ y k l m n s ʿ p ṣ q r š t
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 200 300 400
history • Phoenician • Aramaic • Hebrew • Syriac • Arabic
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