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South Semitic scripts

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Family of writing systems that split from the Proto-Sinaitic script
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South Arabian inscription addressed to the Sabaean national god
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by the 10th century BC. The family has two main branches:
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An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions
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Index

alphabets
Proto-Sinaitic script
Ancient North Arabian
Ancient South Arabian
Abjad
Old South Arabian
Ge'ez
Dadanitic
Taymanitic
Dumaitic
Thamudic
Safaitic
Hismaic
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Proto-Sinaitic script
Ancient North Arabian
Ancient South Arabian
phonetic transcriptions
International Phonetic Alphabet
Help:IPA
IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters
Arabia
Horn of Africa

Almaqah
Geʽez
Ethiopia
Ethiosemitic languages
Arabic script
Nabataean script

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