Safitic
Extinct languageLanguage Information
Safaitic is the name given to thousands of rock inscriptions found in the basalt desert of southern Syria, northeastern Jordan, and northern Saudi Arabia. The language is extinct.
The inscriptions date from about the 1st century B.C. to the 4th century A.D. and were carved by nomads in an alphabet derived from the South Arabian script. They record names, genealogies, and events such as raids and migrations, and they are written in an early form of North Arabian, closely related to Arabic.
The inscriptions date from about the 1st century B.C. to the 4th century A.D. and were carved by nomads in an alphabet derived from the South Arabian script. They record names, genealogies, and events such as raids and migrations, and they are written in an early form of North Arabian, closely related to Arabic.
- Language Family
- Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic)
- Subgroup
- Semitic
- Branch
- Arabic