Ancient North Arabian

Many scholars believed that the various ANA alphabets were derived from the ASA script, mainly because the latter was employed by a major civilization and exhibited more angular features. Others believed that the ANA and ASA scripts shared a common ancestor from which they both developed in parallel. Indeed, it seems unlikely that the various ANA scripts descend from the monumental ASA alphabet, but that they collectively share a common ancestor to the exclusion of ASA is also something which has yet to be demonstrated. Safaitic and Hismaic are also now considered forms of Old Arabic due to shared features. == Geographical distribution ==

The Ancient North Arabian scripts were used both in the oases (Dadanitic, Dumaitic, Taymanitic) and by the nomads (Hismaic, Safaitic, Thamudic B, C, D, and possibly Southern Thamudic aka Thamudic F) of central and northern Arabia. The most ancient examples of the script recently discovered date back to the 9th-8th BCE and were found in Syria, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Luristan. ==Table of letters==

Ancient North Arabian script has a one-to-one correspondence with the Arabic alphabet except for 𐪏‎ and 𐪊‎ which correspond to . Unicode Old North Arabian script was added to the Unicode Standard in June 2014 with the release of version 7.0. The Unicode block for Ancient North Arabian is U+10A80–U+10A9F: ==See also==

• Lozachmeur, H., (ed.), (1995) ''Presence arabe dans le croissant fertile avant l'Hegire (Actes de la table ronde internationale Paris, 13 novembre 1993)'' Paris: Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations. • Macdonald, M.C.A., (2000) "Reflections on the linguistic map of pre-Islamic Arabia" Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 11(1), 28–79 • Scagliarini, F., (1999) "The Dedanitic inscriptions from Jabal 'Ikma in north-western Hejaz" Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 29, 143-150 • Winnett, F.V. and Reed, W.L., (1970) Ancient Records from North Arabia (Toronto: University of Toronto) • Woodard, Roger D. Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia. Cambridge University Press 2008.