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Nabataean
Type	Abjad
Languages	Nabataean language
Time period	2nd century BC to 4th century AD
Parent systems	Proto-Sinaitic alphabet Phoenician alphabet Aramaic alphabet Syriac alphabet Nabataean
Child systems	Arabic alphabet
ISO 15924	`Nbat, 159`
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols.

History of the alphabet

Proto-Sinaitic alphabet 19 c. BCE Ugaritic 15 c. BCE Proto-Canaanite 14 c. BCE Phoenician 12 c. BCE Paleo-Hebrew 10 c. BCE Samaritan 6 c. BCE Aramaic 8 c. BCE Kharoṣṭhī 6 c. BCE Brāhmī 6 c. BCE Brahmic family (see) e.g. Devanagari 13 c. CE Hebrew 3 c. BCE Thaana 4 c. BCE Pahlavi 3 c. BCE Avestan 4 c. CE Palmyrene 2 c. BCE Syriac 2 c. BCE Sogdian 2 c. BCE Orkhon (Old Turkic) 6 c. CE Old Hungarian ca. 650 Old Uyghur Mongolian 1204 hh Nabataean 2 c. BCE Arabic 4 c. CE Mandaic 2 c. CE Greek 8 c. BCE Etruscan 8 c. BCE Latin 7 c. BCE Runic 2 c. CE Ogham 4 c. CE Coptic 3 c. CE Gothic 3 c. CE Armenian 405 Georgian ca. 430 CE Glagolitic 862 Cyrillic ca. 940 Old Permic 1372 Paleohispanic (semi-syllabic) 7 c. BCE Epigraphic South Arabian 9 c. BCE Ge’ez 5–6 c. BCE

Meroitic (from Egyptian) 3 c. BCE

Hangul (partly from Brahmic) 1443

Zhuyin (aka Bopomofo, from Chinese) 1913

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The Nabataean alphabet is a consonantal alphabet (abjad) that was used by the Nabataeans in the 2nd century BCE.^[1] Important inscriptions are found in Petra, Jordan. The alphabet is descended from the Aramaic alphabet via the Syriac alphabet. A cursive form of it in turn developed into the Arabic alphabet from the 4th century^[1], which is why its letterforms are intermediate between the more northerly Semitic scripts (such as the Hebrew) and Arabic.

Name	Arabic Alphabet	Syriac Alphabet
Alaph	ا/ء	ܐ
Beth	ب	ܒ
Gamal	ج	ܓ
Dalath	ﺩ	ܕ
Heh	ه	ܗ
Waw	ﻭ	ܘ
Zain	ﺯ	ܙ
Heth	ح	ܚ
Teth	ﻁ	ܛ
Yodh	ي	ܝ
Kaph	ﻛ/ك	ܟܟ
Lamadh	ل	ܠ
Meem	م	ܡ
Noon	ن	ܢܢ
Simkath		ܣ
'E	ع	ܥ
Peh	ف	ܦ
Sad'e	ص	ܨ
Qoph	ﻕ	ܩ
Resh	ﺭ	ܪ
Sheen	س، ش	ܫ
Taw	ﺕ	ܬ

The Northwest Semitic abjad
ʾ	b	g	d	h	w	z	ḥ	ṭ	y	k	l	m	n	s	ʿ	p	ṣ	q	r	š	t
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100	200	300	400
history • Phoenician • Aramaic • Hebrew • Syriac • Arabic

Brahmic	Ahom Balinese Batak Baybayin Brāhmī Buhid Burmese Chakma Cham Devanāgarī Dhives Akuru Assamese/Bengali Grantha Gujarati Gupta Gurmukhī Hanunó'o Javanese Kadamba Kaithi Kalinga Kannada Khmer Lanna Lao Lepcha Limbu Lontara Malayalam Meitei Mayek Mithilakshar Modi Mon Nāgarī Nepali Old Kawi Oriya Pallava 'Phags-pa Ranjana Rejang Rencong Śāradā Saurashtra Sinhala Siddhaṃ Soyombo Sundanese Sylheti Nagari Tagbanwa Tai Dam Tai Le Takri Tamil Telugu Thai Tibetan Tocharian Varang Kshiti

Others	Boyd's syllabic shorthand Canadian Aboriginal Ge'ez Japanese braille Kharoṣṭhī Meroitic Pollard Sorang Sompeng Tāna Thomas Natural Shorthand

Alphabets

Linear	Armenian Avestan Bassa Vah Borama Coptic Cyrillic Deseret Duployan shorthand Eclectic shorthand Elbasan Fraser Gabelsberger shorthand Georgian Glagolitic Gothic Gregg shorthand Greek Greco-Iberian alphabet Hangul International Phonetic Kaddare Latin Manchu Mandaic Mongolian Neo-Tifinagh New Tai Lue N'Ko Ogham Ol Chiki Old Hungarian Old Italic Old Permic Orkhon Osmanya Runic Shavian alphabet Visible Speech Vithkuqi

Non-linear	Braille Hebrew Korean Maritime flags Morse code New York Point Semaphore line Flag semaphore Moon type

Ideo/Pictograms

Aztec Blissymbol DanceWriting Dongba Míkmaq New Epoch Notation Painting Nsibidi SignWriting

Logograms

Chinese	Traditional Simplified Hanja Hán tự Kanji

Chinese-based	Chữ Nôm Jurchen Khitan large script Tangut Zhuang

Other logo-syllabic	Anatolian Cuneiform Maya Yi

Logo-consonantal	Demotic Hieratic Hieroglyphs

Numerals	Hindu-Arabic Abjad Greek (Attic) Roman

Semi-syllabaries

Full	Celtiberian Northeastern Iberian Southeastern Iberian

Redundant	Southwest Paleohispanic Pahawh Hmong Zhùyīn fúhào Khitan small script

Syllabaries

Afaka Cherokee Cypriot Geba Hiragana Katakana Kikakui Kpelle Linear B Man'yōgana Nüshu Old Persian Cuneiform Vai Woleai Yi Yugtun

References

^ ^a ^b [1], http://www.omniglot.com/writing/nabataean.htm.

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