Nabataean
Extinct languageLanguage Information
Nabataean was spoken and written in the ancient Nabataean kingdom, centered on Petra in southern Jordan and extending into the Negev, Sinai, northwestern Saudi Arabia (Hegra, or Mada'in Salih), and southern Syria. It is extinct.
The Nabataeans were an Arab people who used Aramaic as their written language from about the 2nd century B.C. until the kingdom was annexed by Rome in A.D. 106, and their script continued in use after that. The Nabataean script is the direct ancestor of the Arabic alphabet.
The Nabataeans were an Arab people who used Aramaic as their written language from about the 2nd century B.C. until the kingdom was annexed by Rome in A.D. 106, and their script continued in use after that. The Nabataean script is the direct ancestor of the Arabic alphabet.
- Language Family
- Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic)
- Subgroup
- Semitic
- Branch
- Aramaic