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| Old Arabic | |
|---|---|
 Epitaph of Imru al-Qays ibn Amr (328 AD) | |
| Region | Northwestern Arabian Peninsula and the southern Levant |
| Era | Early 1st millennium BCE to 7th century CE |
Early form | |
| Safaitic Hismaic Dadanitic Nabataean Phoenician Arabic Greek | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
Old Arabic is the name for any Arabic language or dialect continuum before Islam.[1] Various forms of Old Arabic are attested in scripts like Safaitic, Hismaic, Nabatean, and even Greek.[2]
More occasionally, the term is used to refer to Paleo-Arabic, which refers to the formation of the Arabic script in the fifth and sixth centuries.[3]
- ^ Al-Jallad, Ahmad (January 2020). "A Manual of the Historical Grammar of Arabic". Academia.edu. 2020-1.
- ^ Al-Jallad, Ahmad (2018). "The earliest stages of Arabic and its linguistic classification". The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics. Routledge. ISBN 9781315147062.
- ^ Lindstedt, Ilkka (2023). Muhammad and his followers in context: the religious map of late antique Arabia. Islamic history and civilization. Leiden Boston: Brill. pp. 49–50. ISBN 978-90-04-68712-7.