Hasaitic
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Hasaitic is an Old 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
.
They are written in the South Arabian script and date to the 3rd to 2nd centuries BC.
Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
at Thaj, Hinna, Qatif
Qatif
Qatif or Al-Qatif is a governorate and urban area located in Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. It extends from Ras Tanura and Jubail in the north to Dammam in the south, and from the Persian Gulf in the east to King Fahd International Airport in the west...
, Ras Tanura
Ras Tanura
Ras Tanura is a city in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia located on a peninsula extending into the Persian Gulf...
, Abqaiq
Abqaiq
Abqaiq, or in Arabic Bqaiq , is a Saudi Aramco camp in the interior of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, located in the desert 60 km southwest of the Dhahran-Dammam-Khobar metropolitan area. The camp was built in the 1940s by ARAMCO...
in the al-Hasa
Al-Hasa
Al-Ahsa is the largest governorate in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, named after Al-Ahsa oasis. The name Al-Ahsa is also given to the biggest city in the region, Hofuf. In classic Arabic, Ahsa means the sound of water underground. It has one of the largest oases in the world with Date Palms of...
region, Ayn Jawan, Mileiha
Mileiha
Mileiha is a village in the United Arab Emirates and the location of archaeological remnants dating from the Neolithic to pre-Islamic Arabia....
and at Uruk
Uruk
Uruk was an ancient city of Sumer and later Babylonia, situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates river, on the ancient dry former channel of the Euphrates River, some 30 km east of modern As-Samawah, Al-Muthannā, Iraq.Uruk gave its name to the Uruk...
.
They are written in the South Arabian script and date to the 3rd to 2nd centuries BC.
Refecences
- M. C. A. Macdonald, Reflections on the linguistic map of pre-Islamic Arabia, Arabian archaeology and epigraphy 11 (2000), 28-79.
External links
- http://www.uaeinteract.com/history/e_walk/con_3/con3_21.asp