Ancient Arabic written in different scripts by Ahmad al-Jallad

[Kamal900]

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[Kamal900]

In Safaitic Inscription KRS 306, a certain Ḍoḥay son of ʾAswar states: ʿanawa ʾagīra fa-hā roḍaw badded-oh me-ʾograt-oh 'He toiled obediently as a hired man so, O Roḍaw (name of a god), grant him his share of pay'! -- Happy Labor Day weekend!

https://twitter.com/Safaitic/status/1035887986087477248

Happy labor day from the ancient Arabs 2000 years ago, lol.

[Kamal900]

New texts suggest that Allāh, in this exact form, was not the common Arabic name of the monotheistic god in the century before Islam. In the Zebed inscription, the Christian god is called al-ʾilāh 'the God'.

https://twitter.com/Safaitic/status/1034092656828268544

[Kamal900]

The vocative form Allāhumma is even attested. In the Hismaic inscription Jackobson D.3.A.7.b, the author invokes Allāh to curse the sons of ʿuray son of ʿaklam: hāllāhumma le-banī ʿoray ben ʿaklam boʾsa’!

https://twitter.com/Safaitic/status/1034092636066521089

[Tauromachos]

I recognise some Greek letters in these scripts

Theta θ ,Alpha Α,Betha Β,Lambda Λ to name a few

And very rarely, speakers of Arabic wrote their language in Greek letters. If this tradition caught on, Arabic could have developed a scripted based on a modified form of the Greek alphabet, comparable to Coptic."

I don't know but maybe you should take a look here
https://archive.org/details/Hebrew.is.Greek

[Skjaldemjøden]

Judeo-Arabic comes to mind. I was just deciphering some fragments in the Cairo Genizah the other day.

[Kamal900]

Judeo-Arabic comes to mind. I was just deciphering some fragments in the Cairo Genizah the other day.

So, do you know how to read Arabic in Safaitic and Hismaic scripts? Judeo-Arabic was written in Hebrew too:


I always wondered on how the dialect would have sounded.

[Skjaldemjøden]

So, do you know how to read Arabic in Safaitic and Hismaic scripts?

No, only Hebrew. The page you linked is written in two different scrips. I can read both. Only half of it is Judeo-Arabic, starting with "fi kamsa ashraq mitatsrifin fi dukhan tsabag wakharir bemaasehem waamalehem mada min asnin kalma akhar, ajuah yaum ma limbalaj mirara kamsa asara dinar..." The top is just plain Hebrew. Translating Judeo-Arabic is almost impossible without a proper education since it reflects spoken (as opposed to written) Arabic in its respective time. I transliterate fragments in my free time for the Friedberg Genizah Project.

[Kamal900]

Finally, the sanctuary itself was called ‘bayt’. The sanctuary of Allāt (bayt allāt) is attested in an inscription from Wādī Ramm (ancient ʾIram), see this thread: https://twitter.com/Safaitic/status/1004991503511572480 …

[Kamal900]

Linguistic maps of #AncientArabia: The map on the left is the traditional linguistic map of pre-Islamic Arabia--a sea of Arabic, with Aramaic to the north and Ḥimyaritic to the south. The map on the right, a rough approximation, is what we now know because of #epigraphy!


https://twitter.com/Safaitic/status/1036274398087536641

Safaitic and Hismaic are scripts written for Old Arabic.