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Hasaitic
Found in: History of Saudi Arabia
Hasaitic is an Old North Arabian dialect attested in inscriptions in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia at Thaj, Hinna, Qatif, Ras Tanura, Abqaiq in the al-Hasa region, Ayn Jawan, Mileiha and at Uruk.William Facey, The Story of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, 1994, ISBN 1 900988 18 6
They are written in the South Arabian script and date to the 3rd to 2nd centuries BC.
Refecences
M. C. A. Macdonald, Reflections on the linguistic map of pre-Islamic Arabia, Arabian archaeology and epigraphy 11 (2000), 28-79.
External links
http://www.uaeinteract.com/history/e_walk/con_3/con3_21.asp
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