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South Arabian alphabet
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South Arabian alphabet
The ancient
Yemeni
alphabet (Old South Arabian
ms
3
nd
; modern
musnad
) branched from the
Proto-Sinaitic alphabet
in about the 9th century BC. It was used for writing the
Old South Arabian
languages of the
Sabaic
,
Qatabanic
,
Hadramautic
,
Minaic (or Madhabic)
,
Himyaritic
, and
Ge'ez
in
Dʿmt
. The earliest inscriptions in the alphabet date to the 9th century BC in
Akkele Guzay
,
Eritrea
. There are no vowels, instead using the
mater lectionis
to mark them.
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