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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D8%B7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF" title="خط المسند – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="خط المسند" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bjn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bjn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjad_Musnad" title="Abjad Musnad – Banjar" lang="bjn" hreflang="bjn" data-title="Abjad Musnad" data-language-autonym="Banjar" data-language-local-name="Banjar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Banjar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%9E%D0%B4%D0%BD%D1%91%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D1%96%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%BE" title="Паўднёвааравійскае пісьмо – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Паўднёвааравійскае пісьмо" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfabet_sud-ar%C3%A0bic" title="Alfabet sud-aràbic – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Alfabet sud-aràbic" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alts%C3%BCdarabische_Schrift" title="Altsüdarabische Schrift – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Altsüdarabische Schrift" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfabeto_sudar%C3%A1bigo" title="Alfabeto sudarábigo – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Alfabeto sudarábigo" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D8%B7_%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A8%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86" title="خط عربستان جنوبی باستان – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="خط عربستان جنوبی باستان" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_sudarabique" title="Alphabet sudarabique – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Alphabet sudarabique" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfabeto_surar%C3%A1bico" title="Alfabeto surarábico – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Alfabeto surarábico" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%82%A8%EC%95%84%EB%9E%8D_%EB%AC%B8%EC%9E%90" title="남아랍 문자 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="남아랍 문자" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjad_Arab_Selatan_Kuno" title="Abjad Arab Selatan Kuno – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Abjad Arab Selatan Kuno" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfabeto_musnad" title="Alfabeto musnad – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Alfabeto musnad" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9B%D7%AA%D7%91_%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9D-%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99_%D7%A2%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%A7" title="כתב דרום-ערבי עתיק – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="כתב דרום-ערבי עתיק" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B%E1%83%AE%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%97%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%91%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98_%E1%83%93%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B%E1%83%AC%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9A%E1%83%9D%E1%83%91%E1%83%90" title="სამხრეთარაბული დამწერლობა – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="სამხრეთარაბული დამწერლობა" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dienvidar%C4%81bijas_raksts" title="Dienvidarābijas raksts – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Dienvidarābijas raksts" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93d%C3%A9larab_%C3%ADr%C3%A1s" title="Ódélarab írás – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Ódélarab írás" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%88%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%BE" title="Јужноарапско писмо – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Јужноарапско писмо" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksara_Arab_Selatan_Purba" title="Aksara Arab Selatan Purba – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Aksara Arab Selatan Purba" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%97%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A9%E3%83%93%E3%82%A2%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97" title="南アラビア文字 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="南アラビア文字" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%85_%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A8%DB%8C_%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8_%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%B7" title="قدیم جنوبی عرب رسم الخط – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="قدیم جنوبی عرب رسم الخط" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pismo_po%C5%82udniowoarabskie" title="Pismo południowoarabskie – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Pismo południowoarabskie" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfabeto_ar%C3%A1bico_meridional" title="Alfabeto arábico meridional – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Alfabeto arábico meridional" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%BE" title="Южноаравийское письмо – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Южноаравийское письмо" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%BE_%D1%98%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%98%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%BE" title="Древно јужноарабијско писмо – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Древно јужноарабијско писмо" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%B1%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81_%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF_%E0%AE%8E%E0%AE%B4%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%81" title="தெற்கு அரேபிய எழுத்து – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="தெற்கு அரேபிய எழுத்து" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" 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title="Right-to-left script">Right-to-left</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boustrophedon" title="Boustrophedon">boustrophedon</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Languages</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Old_South_Arabian" title="Old South Arabian">Old South Arabian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ge%27ez" class="mw-redirect" title="Ge'ez">Ge'ez</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#ddd">Related scripts</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Parent systems</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="padding-top:0.15em;"><a href="/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs" title="Egyptian hieroglyphs">Egyptian hieroglyphs</a><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Sinaitic_script" title="Proto-Sinaitic script">Proto-Sinaitic</a><ul style="margin-left:0.8em;"><li><a href="/wiki/South_Semitic_scripts" title="South Semitic scripts">South Semitic</a> <a href="/wiki/Old_Arabic" title="Old Arabic">Old Arabic</a><ul style="margin-left:0.8em;"><li>Ancient South Arabian script</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Child systems</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ge%CA%BDez_script" title="Geʽez script">Geʽez</a><sup id="cite_ref-WorldsWritingSystems89_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WorldsWritingSystems89-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CambridgeAncientLanguages431_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CambridgeAncientLanguages431-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Sister systems</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ancient_North_Arabian" title="Ancient North Arabian">Ancient North Arabian</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#ddd">ISO 15924</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><a href="/wiki/ISO_15924" title="ISO 15924">ISO 15924</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style><span class="monospaced">Sarb</span> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">(105)</span>, Old South Arabian</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#ddd"><a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Unicode alias</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Old South Arabian</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Unicode_range" class="mw-redirect" title="Unicode range">Unicode range</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U10A60.pdf">U+10A60–U+10A7F</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below noprint selfref" style="text-align:left; background:#eee;"><span style="font-size:90%"> This article contains <b><a href="/wiki/Phonetic_transcription" title="Phonetic transcription">phonetic transcriptions</a> in the <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">International Phonetic Alphabet</a> (IPA)</b>. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA" title="Help:IPA">Help:IPA</a>. For the distinction between <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ ]</span>, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ /</span> and ⟨<span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"> </span>⟩, see <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet#Brackets_and_transcription_delimiters" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters</a>.</span></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Panel_Almaqah_Louvre_DAO18.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Panel_Almaqah_Louvre_DAO18.jpg/260px-Panel_Almaqah_Louvre_DAO18.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="396" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Panel_Almaqah_Louvre_DAO18.jpg/390px-Panel_Almaqah_Louvre_DAO18.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Panel_Almaqah_Louvre_DAO18.jpg/520px-Panel_Almaqah_Louvre_DAO18.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2230" data-file-height="3400" /></a><figcaption>South Arabian inscription addressed to the Sabaean national god <a href="/wiki/Almaqah" title="Almaqah">Almaqah</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>Ancient South Arabian script</b> (Old South Arabian: <span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem" dir="rtl">𐩣𐩯𐩬𐩵</span></span> <span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">ms<sup>3</sup>nd</i></span>; modern <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: <span lang="ar" dir="rtl">الْمُسْنَد</span> <span title="Arabic-language romanization"><i lang="ar-Latn">musnad</i></span>) branched from the <a href="/wiki/Proto-Sinaitic_script" title="Proto-Sinaitic script">Proto-Sinaitic script</a> in about the late 2nd millennium BCE. It was used for writing the <a href="/wiki/Old_South_Arabian" title="Old South Arabian">Old South Arabian</a> languages <a href="/wiki/Sabaic" title="Sabaic">Sabaic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Qatabanian_language" title="Qatabanian language">Qatabanic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hadramautic_language" title="Hadramautic language">Hadramautic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Minaean_language" title="Minaean language">Minaean</a> <a href="/wiki/Hasaitic" title="Hasaitic">Hasaitic</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ge%CA%BDez" title="Geʽez">Geʽez</a> in <a href="/wiki/D%CA%BFmt" title="Dʿmt">Dʿmt</a>. The earliest instances of the Ancient South Arabian script are painted pottery sherds from Raybun in Hadhramaut in Yemen, which are dated to the late 2nd millennium BCE.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are no letters for vowels, though some can be indicated via <a href="/wiki/Matres_lectionis" class="mw-redirect" title="Matres lectionis">matres lectionis</a>. </p><p>Its mature form was reached around 800 BCE and its use continued until the 6th century CE, including <a href="/wiki/Ancient_North_Arabian" title="Ancient North Arabian">Ancient North Arabian</a> inscriptions in variants of the alphabet, when it was displaced by the <a href="/wiki/Arabic_alphabet" title="Arabic alphabet">Arabic alphabet</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Eritrea and Ethiopia, it evolved later into the <a href="/wiki/Ge%CA%BDez_script" title="Geʽez script">Geʽez script</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-WorldsWritingSystems89_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WorldsWritingSystems89-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CambridgeAncientLanguages431_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CambridgeAncientLanguages431-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which, with added symbols throughout the centuries, has been used to write <a href="/wiki/Amharic" title="Amharic">Amharic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tigrinya_language" title="Tigrinya language">Tigrinya</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tigre_language" title="Tigre language">Tigre</a>, as well as other languages (including various <a href="/wiki/Semitic_languages" title="Semitic languages">Semitic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cushitic_languages" title="Cushitic languages">Cushitic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Omotic_languages" 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BCE <ul><li><span style="text-decoration-color:gray; text-decoration-line:line-through;"><i><a href="/wiki/Demotic_(Egyptian)" title="Demotic (Egyptian)">Demotic</a></i></span> 7th c. BCE <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Meroitic_script" title="Meroitic script">Meroitic</a> 3rd c. BCE</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><span style="text-decoration-color:gray; text-decoration-line:line-through;"><i><a href="/wiki/Proto-Sinaitic" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-Sinaitic">Proto-Sinaitic</a></i></span> 19th c. BCE <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ugaritic_alphabet" title="Ugaritic alphabet">Ugaritic</a> 15th c. BCE</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ancient South Arabian</a> 9th c. BCE <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ge%CA%BDez_script" title="Geʽez script">Geʽez</a> <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 5th c. BCE</span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet" title="Phoenician alphabet">Phoenician</a> 12th c. BCE <ul><li>(<span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">see <a href="#tp-abchistory-phx">below</a></span>)</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hangul" title="Hangul">Hangul</a> 1443</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thaana" title="Thaana">Thaana</a> <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1601</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adlam_script" title="Adlam script">Adlam</a> 1989</li></ul> </div> <hr /> <div class="treeview"><span class="anchor" id="tp-abchistory-phx"></span> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet" title="Phoenician alphabet">Phoenician</a> 12th c. BCE <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paleo-Hebrew" class="mw-redirect" title="Paleo-Hebrew">Paleo-Hebrew</a> 10th c. BCE <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samaritan_script" title="Samaritan script">Samaritan</a> 6th c. BCE</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aramaic_alphabet" title="Aramaic alphabet">Aramaic</a> 8th c. BCE <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kharosthi" title="Kharosthi">Kharosthi</a> 3rd c. BCE</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brahmi" class="mw-redirect" title="Brahmi">Brahmi</a> 3rd c. BCE <ul><li>(<i><a href="/wiki/Brahmic_family" class="mw-redirect" title="Brahmic family">Brahmic</a></i>) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pallava_script" title="Pallava script">Pallava</a> 4th century <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cham_script" title="Cham script">Cham</a> 4th century</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhives_Akuru" title="Dhives Akuru">Dhives Akuru</a> 6th century</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khmer_script" title="Khmer script">Khmer</a> 611</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tibetan_script" title="Tibetan script">Tibetan</a> 7th century <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%CA%BCPhags-pa" class="mw-redirect" title="ʼPhags-pa">ʼPhags-pa</a> 1269</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devanagari" title="Devanagari">Devanagari</a> 10th century <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_Aboriginal_syllabics" title="Canadian Aboriginal syllabics">Canadian Aboriginal</a> 1840</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hebrew_alphabet" title="Hebrew alphabet">Hebrew</a> 3rd c. BCE <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Western_Neo-Aramaic#Square_Aramaic_Alphabet" title="Western Neo-Aramaic">Square Aramaic</a> 2007</li></ul></li> <li><span style="text-decoration-color:gray; text-decoration-line:line-through;"><i><a href="/wiki/Pahlavi_scripts" title="Pahlavi scripts">Pahlavi</a></i></span> 3rd c. BCE <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Avestan_alphabet" title="Avestan alphabet">Avestan</a> 4th century</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palmyrene_alphabet" title="Palmyrene alphabet">Palmyrene</a> 2nd c. BCE</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nabataean_script" title="Nabataean script">Nabataean</a> 2nd c. BCE <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arabic_alphabet" title="Arabic alphabet">Arabic</a> 4th century <ul><li><a href="/wiki/N%27Ko_script" title="N'Ko script">N'Ko</a> 1949</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syriac_alphabet" title="Syriac alphabet">Syriac</a> 2nd c. BCE <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sogdian_alphabet" title="Sogdian alphabet">Sogdian</a> 2nd c. BCE <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Old_Turkic_script" title="Old Turkic script">Old Turkic</a> 6th century <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Old_Hungarian_script" title="Old Hungarian script">Old Hungarian</a> <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 650</span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Uyghur_alphabet" title="Old Uyghur alphabet">Old Uyghur</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mongolian_script" title="Mongolian script">Mongolian</a> 1204</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandaic_alphabet" title="Mandaic alphabet">Mandaic</a> 2nd century</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_alphabet" title="Greek alphabet">Greek</a> 8th c. BCE <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Old_Italic_scripts" title="Old Italic scripts">Etruscan</a> 8th c. BCE <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Latin_alphabet" title="Latin alphabet">Latin</a> 7th c. BCE <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Deseret_alphabet" title="Deseret alphabet">Deseret</a> 1854</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Lakes_Algonquian_syllabics" title="Great Lakes Algonquian syllabics">Great Lakes Algonquian</a> 19th century</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackfoot_language#Syllabic_writing_system" title="Blackfoot language">Blackfoot</a> 1888</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fraser_script" title="Fraser script">Fraser</a> 1915</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saanich_dialect#Writing_system" title="Saanich dialect">Saanich</a> 1978</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osage_script" title="Osage script">Osage</a> 2006</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Runic" class="mw-redirect" title="Runic">Runic</a> 2nd century</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ogham" title="Ogham">Ogham</a> 4th century</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lycian_alphabet" title="Lycian alphabet">Lycian</a> 5th c. BCE</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coptic_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Coptic alphabet">Coptic</a> 3rd century</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gothic_alphabet" title="Gothic alphabet">Gothic</a> 3rd century</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_alphabet" title="Armenian alphabet">Armenian</a> 405 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Caucasian_Albanian_script" title="Caucasian Albanian script">Caucasian Albanian</a> <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 420</span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgian_scripts" title="Georgian scripts">Georgian</a> <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 430</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glagolitic" class="mw-redirect" title="Glagolitic">Glagolitic</a> 862</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyrillic" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyrillic">Cyrillic</a> <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 940</span> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Old_Permic" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Permic">Old Permic</a> 1372</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libyco-Berber" class="mw-redirect" title="Libyco-Berber">Libyco-Berber</a> 10th c. BCE <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tifinagh" title="Tifinagh">Tifinagh</a> 4th century <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tifinagh#Neo-Tifinagh" title="Tifinagh">Neo-Tifinagh</a> 1970</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paleohispanic_scripts" title="Paleohispanic scripts">Paleohispanic</a> 7th c. 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When written from left to right the characters are flipped horizontally (see the photo).</li> <li>The spacing or separation between words is done with a vertical bar mark (|).</li> <li>Letters in words are not connected together.</li> <li>It does not implement any diacritical marks (dots, etc.), differing in this respect from the modern <a href="/wiki/Arabic_alphabet" title="Arabic alphabet">Arabic alphabet</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Characteristics">Characteristics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ancient_South_Arabian_script&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Characteristics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Difference_from_the_Arabic_script">Difference from the Arabic script</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ancient_South_Arabian_script&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Difference from the Arabic script"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Musnad script differs from the Arabic script, which most linguists believe developed from the Nabataean script in the fourth century AD, which in turn developed from the Aramaic script. The languages of the Southern Musnad script also differ greatly from the Northern Arabic language,in terms of script, lexicon, grammar, styles, and perhaps sounds, and the letters of the script increase. The Musnad is derived from Arabic with one sibilant letter (some call it samikh) or the third sīn.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Letters">Letters</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ancient_South_Arabian_script&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Letters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Illustrirte_Geschichte_der_Schrift_(Faulmann)_307.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Illustrirte_Geschichte_der_Schrift_%28Faulmann%29_307.jpg/220px-Illustrirte_Geschichte_der_Schrift_%28Faulmann%29_307.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="321" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Illustrirte_Geschichte_der_Schrift_%28Faulmann%29_307.jpg/330px-Illustrirte_Geschichte_der_Schrift_%28Faulmann%29_307.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Illustrirte_Geschichte_der_Schrift_%28Faulmann%29_307.jpg/440px-Illustrirte_Geschichte_der_Schrift_%28Faulmann%29_307.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1938" data-file-height="2825" /></a><figcaption>Sabaean letter examples on page 274 of the book "Illustrirte Geschichte der Schrift" by Carl Faulmann, 1880</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Illustrirte_Geschichte_der_Schrift_(Faulmann)_308.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Illustrirte_Geschichte_der_Schrift_%28Faulmann%29_308.jpg/220px-Illustrirte_Geschichte_der_Schrift_%28Faulmann%29_308.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="321" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Illustrirte_Geschichte_der_Schrift_%28Faulmann%29_308.jpg/330px-Illustrirte_Geschichte_der_Schrift_%28Faulmann%29_308.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Illustrirte_Geschichte_der_Schrift_%28Faulmann%29_308.jpg/440px-Illustrirte_Geschichte_der_Schrift_%28Faulmann%29_308.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1938" data-file-height="2825" /></a><figcaption>Sabaean letter examples on page 275 of the book "Illustrirte Geschichte der Schrift" by Carl Faulmann, 1880</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable" id="letters_chart" style="text-align: center;"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Letter<sup id="cite_ref-UnicodeChart_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UnicodeChart-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Phoneme" title="Phoneme">Phoneme</a> </th> <th rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a> </th> <th colspan="9">Corresponding letter in </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Ancient_North_Arabian" title="Ancient North Arabian">Ancient North Arabian</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Ge%27ez_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Ge'ez script">Ge'ez</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet" title="Phoenician alphabet">Phoenician</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Aramaic_alphabet" title="Aramaic alphabet">Aramaic</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Arabic_alphabet" title="Arabic alphabet">Arabic</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Hebrew_alphabet" title="Hebrew alphabet">Hebrew</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩠</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">h</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiceless_glottal_fricative" title="Voiceless glottal fricative">h</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1009414097">.mw-parser-output .script-Narb{font-family:"Noto Sans Old North Arabian"}</style><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪀</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1226571163">.mw-parser-output .Ethiopic{font-family:"Noto Sans Ethiopic","Ebrima","Abyssinica SIL"}</style><span class="Ethiopic">ሀ</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn"><a href="/wiki/He_(letter)" title="He (letter)">𐤄</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Aramaic-language text"><span lang="sem"><a href="/wiki/He_(letter)" title="He (letter)">𐡄</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1227789315">.mw-parser-output .script-arabic{font-family:"Scheherazade New","SF Arabic",Amiri,"Noto Naskh Arabic","Droid Arabic Naskh","Noto Sans Arabic","Sakkal Majalla","Harmattan","Arabic Typesetting","Arabic Transparent","Times New Roman",Arial,Calibri,"Microsoft Sans Serif","Segoe UI",serif,sans-serif;font-weight:normal}</style><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/He_(letter)#Arabic_hāʾ" title="He (letter)">ه</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1241449095">.mw-parser-output .script-hebrew,.mw-parser-output .script-Hebr{font-family:"Ezra SIL SR","Ezra SIL","SBL Hebrew","Taamey Frank CLM","SBL BibLit","Taamey Ashkenaz","Frank Ruehl CLM","Keter Aram Tsova","Taamey David CLM","Keter YG","Shofar","David CLM","Hadasim CLM","Simple CLM","Nachlieli",Cardo,Alef,"Noto Serif Hebrew","Noto Sans Hebrew","David Libre",David,"Times New Roman",Gisha,Arial,FreeSerif,FreeSans}</style><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/He_(letter)#Hebrew_heh" title="He (letter)">ה</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩡</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">l</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_lateral_approximant" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced alveolar lateral approximant">l</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪁</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226571163"><span class="Ethiopic">ለ</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn"><a href="/wiki/Lamedh" title="Lamedh">𐤋</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Aramaic-language text"><span lang="sem"><a href="/wiki/Lamedh" title="Lamedh">𐡋</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/Lamedh#Arabic_lām" title="Lamedh">ل</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/Lamedh#Hebrew_lamed" title="Lamedh">ל</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩢</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">ḥ</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiceless_pharyngeal_fricative" title="Voiceless pharyngeal fricative">ħ</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪂</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226571163"><span class="Ethiopic">ሐ</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn"><a href="/wiki/Heth" title="Heth">𐤇</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Aramaic-language text"><span lang="sem"><a href="/wiki/Heth" title="Heth">𐡇</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/Heth#Arabic_ḥāʾ" title="Heth">ح</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/Heth#Hebrew_chet" title="Heth">ח</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩣</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">m</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_nasal" title="Voiced bilabial nasal">m</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪃</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226571163"><span class="Ethiopic">መ</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn"><a href="/wiki/Mem" title="Mem">𐤌</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Aramaic-language text"><span lang="sem"><a href="/wiki/Mem" title="Mem">𐡌</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/Mem#Arabic_mīm" title="Mem">م</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/Mem#Hebrew_mem" title="Mem">מ ם</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩤</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">q</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiceless_uvular_plosive" title="Voiceless uvular plosive">q</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪄</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226571163"><span class="Ethiopic">ቀ</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn"><a href="/wiki/Qoph" title="Qoph">𐤒</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Aramaic-language text"><span lang="sem"><a href="/wiki/Qoph" title="Qoph">𐡒</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/Qoph#Arabic_Qāf" title="Qoph">ق</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/Qoph#Hebrew_qof" title="Qoph">ק</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩥</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">w</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiced_labial%E2%80%93velar_approximant" title="Voiced labial–velar approximant">w</a>]</span>, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Close_back_rounded_vowel" title="Close back rounded vowel">uː</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪅</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226571163"><span class="Ethiopic">ወ</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn"><a href="/wiki/Waw_(letter)" title="Waw (letter)">𐤅</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Aramaic-language text"><span lang="sem"><a href="/wiki/Waw_(letter)" title="Waw (letter)">𐡅</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/Waw_(letter)#Arabic_wāw" title="Waw (letter)">و</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/Waw_(letter)#Hebrew_waw/vav" title="Waw (letter)">ו</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩦</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">s²</i></span> (<span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">š</i></span>) </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_lateral_fricative" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative">ɬ</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪆</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226571163"><span class="Ethiopic"><a href="/wiki/%C5%9Aawt" title="Śawt">ሠ</a></span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn"><a href="/wiki/Shin_(letter)" title="Shin (letter)">𐤔</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Aramaic-language text"><span lang="sem"><a href="/wiki/Shin_(letter)#Aramaic_shin/sin" title="Shin (letter)">𐡔</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/Shin_(letter)#Arabic_shīn/sīn" title="Shin (letter)">ش</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/Shin_(letter)#Hebrew_shin/sin" title="Shin (letter)">ש</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩧</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">r</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_trill" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced alveolar trill">r</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪇</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226571163"><span class="Ethiopic">ረ</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn"><a href="/wiki/Resh" title="Resh">𐤓</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Aramaic-language text"><span lang="sem"><a href="/wiki/Resh" title="Resh">𐡓</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/Resh#Arabic_rāʾ" title="Resh">ر</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/Resh#Hebrew_resh" title="Resh">ר</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩨</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">b</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_plosive" title="Voiced bilabial plosive">b</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪈</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226571163"><span class="Ethiopic">በ</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn"><a href="/wiki/Bet_(letter)" title="Bet (letter)">𐤁</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Aramaic-language text"><span lang="sem"><a href="/wiki/Bet_(letter)" title="Bet (letter)">𐡁</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/Bet_(letter)#Arabic_bāʾ" title="Bet (letter)">ب</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/Bet_(letter)#Hebrew_bet" title="Bet (letter)">ב</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩩</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">t</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_plosive" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiceless alveolar plosive">t</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪉</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226571163"><span class="Ethiopic">ተ</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn"><a href="/wiki/Taw" title="Taw">𐤕</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Aramaic-language text"><span lang="sem"><a href="/wiki/Taw" title="Taw">𐡕</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/Taw#Arabic_tāʼ" title="Taw">ت</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/Taw#Hebrew_tav" title="Taw">ת</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩪</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">s¹</i></span> (<span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">s</i></span>) </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_fricative" title="Voiceless alveolar fricative">s</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪊</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226571163"><span class="Ethiopic"><a href="/wiki/Sat_(letter)" title="Sat (letter)">ሰ</a></span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/Samekh#Arabic_sīn/ṣād_&_Nabataean_simkath" title="Samekh">س</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩫</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">k</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiceless_velar_plosive" title="Voiceless velar plosive">k</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪋</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226571163"><span class="Ethiopic">ከ</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn"><a href="/wiki/Kaph" title="Kaph">𐤊</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Aramaic-language text"><span lang="sem"><a href="/wiki/Kaph" title="Kaph">𐡊</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/Kaph#Arabic_kāf" title="Kaph">ك</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/Kaph#Hebrew_kaf" title="Kaph">כ ך</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩬</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">n</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_nasal" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced alveolar nasal">n</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪌</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226571163"><span class="Ethiopic">ነ</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn"><a href="/wiki/Nun_(letter)" title="Nun (letter)">𐤍</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Aramaic-language text"><span lang="sem"><a href="/wiki/Nun_(letter)" title="Nun (letter)">𐡍</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/Nun_(letter)#Arabic_nūn" title="Nun (letter)">ن</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/Nun_(letter)#Hebrew_nun" title="Nun (letter)">נ ן</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩭</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">ḫ</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiceless_velar_fricative" title="Voiceless velar fricative">x</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪍</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226571163"><span class="Ethiopic">ኀ</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/%E1%B8%AA%C4%81%CA%BE" title="Ḫāʾ">خ</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩮</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">ṣ</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Pharyngealization" title="Pharyngealization">sˤ</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪎</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226571163"><span class="Ethiopic">ጸ</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn"><a href="/wiki/Tsade" title="Tsade">𐤑</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Aramaic-language text"><span lang="sem"><a href="/wiki/Tsade" title="Tsade">𐡑</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/Tsade#Arabic_ṣād" title="Tsade">ص</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/Tsade#Hebrew_tsadi" title="Tsade">צ ץ</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩯</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">s³</i></span> (<span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">ś</i></span>) </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiceless_dental_sibilant_fricative" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiceless dental sibilant fricative">s̪</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪏</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn"><a href="/wiki/Samekh" title="Samekh">𐤎</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Aramaic-language text"><span lang="sem"><a href="/wiki/Samekh" title="Samekh">𐡎</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/Samekh#Hebrew_samekh" title="Samekh">ס</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩰</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">f</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiceless_labiodental_fricative" title="Voiceless labiodental fricative">f</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪐</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226571163"><span class="Ethiopic">ፈ</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn"><a href="/wiki/Pe_(Semitic_letter)" title="Pe (Semitic letter)">𐤐</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Aramaic-language text"><span lang="sem"><a href="/wiki/Pe_(Semitic_letter)" title="Pe (Semitic letter)">𐡐</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/Pe_(Semitic_letter)#Arabic_fāʾ" title="Pe (Semitic letter)">ف</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/Pe_(Semitic_letter)#Hebrew_pe" title="Pe (Semitic letter)">פ ף</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩱</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">ʾ</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Glottal_stop" title="Glottal stop">ʔ</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪑</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226571163"><span class="Ethiopic">አ</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn"><a href="/wiki/Aleph" title="Aleph">𐤀</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Aramaic-language text"><span lang="sem"><a href="/wiki/Aleph#Aramaic" title="Aleph">𐡀</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/Aleph#Arabic" title="Aleph">ا</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/Aleph#Hebrew_alef" title="Aleph">א</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩲</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">ʿ</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiced_pharyngeal_fricative" title="Voiced pharyngeal fricative">ʕ</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪒</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226571163"><span class="Ethiopic">ዐ</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn"><a href="/wiki/Ayin" title="Ayin">𐤏</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Aramaic-language text"><span lang="sem"><a href="/wiki/Ayin" title="Ayin">𐡏</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/Ayin#Arabic_ʿayn" title="Ayin">ع</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/Ayin#Hebrew_ayin" title="Ayin">ע</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩳</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">ḍ</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Pharyngealization" title="Pharyngealization">ɬˤ</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪓</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226571163"><span class="Ethiopic">ፀ</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/%E1%B8%8C%C4%81d" title="Ḍād">ض</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩴</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">g</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiced_velar_plosive" title="Voiced velar plosive">g</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪔</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226571163"><span class="Ethiopic">ገ</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn"><a href="/wiki/Gimel" title="Gimel">𐤂</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Aramaic-language text"><span lang="sem"><a href="/wiki/Gimel" title="Gimel">𐡂</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/Gimel#Arabic_ǧīm" title="Gimel">ج</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/Gimel#Hebrew_gimel" title="Gimel">ג</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩵</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">d</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_plosive" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced alveolar plosive">d</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪕</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226571163"><span class="Ethiopic">ደ</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn"><a href="/wiki/Dalet" title="Dalet">𐤃</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Aramaic-language text"><span lang="sem"><a href="/wiki/Dalet#Aramaic" title="Dalet">𐡃</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/Dalet#Arabic_dāl" title="Dalet">د</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/Dalet#Hebrew_dalet" title="Dalet">ד</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩶</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">ġ</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiced_velar_fricative" title="Voiced velar fricative">ɣ</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪖</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/Ghayn" title="Ghayn">غ</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩷</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">ṭ</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Pharyngealization" title="Pharyngealization">tˤ</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪗</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226571163"><span class="Ethiopic">ጠ</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn"><a href="/wiki/Teth" title="Teth">𐤈</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Aramaic-language text"><span lang="sem"><a href="/wiki/Teth" title="Teth">𐡈</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/Teth#Arabic_ṭāʾ" title="Teth">ط</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/Teth#Hebrew_tet" title="Teth">ט</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩸</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">z</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_fricative" title="Voiced alveolar fricative">z</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪘</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226571163"><span class="Ethiopic">ዘ</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn"><a href="/wiki/Zayin" title="Zayin">𐤆</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Aramaic-language text"><span lang="sem"><a href="/wiki/Zayin" title="Zayin">𐡆</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/Zayin#Arabic_zāy" title="Zayin">ز</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/Zayin#Hebrew_zayin" title="Zayin">ז</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩹</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">ḏ</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiced_dental_fricative" title="Voiced dental fricative">ð</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪙</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/%E1%B8%8E%C4%81l" title="Ḏāl">ذ</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩺</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">y</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiced_palatal_approximant" title="Voiced palatal approximant">j</a>]</span>, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Close_front_unrounded_vowel" title="Close front unrounded vowel">iː</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪚</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ge'ez-language text"><span lang="gez"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226571163"><span class="Ethiopic">የ</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn"><a href="/wiki/Yodh" title="Yodh">𐤉</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Aramaic-language text"><span lang="sem"><a href="/wiki/Yodh" title="Yodh">𐡉</a></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/Yodh#Arabic_yāʼ" title="Yodh">ي</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/Yodh#Hebrew_yod" title="Yodh">י</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩻</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">ṯ</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiceless_dental_fricative" title="Voiceless dental fricative">θ</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪛</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/%E1%B9%AE%C4%81%CA%BE" title="Ṯāʾ">ث</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Old South Arabian-language text"><span lang="sem"><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans Old South Arabian', sans-serif;">𐩼</span></span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td><span title="Old South Arabian-language romanization"><i lang="sem-Latn">ẓ</i></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Pharyngealization" title="Pharyngealization">θˤ</a>]</span> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Ancient North Arabian-language text"><span lang="xna"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009414097"><span class="script-Narb" style="font-size: 100%;">𐪜</span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227789315"><span class="script-arabic script-Arab" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 125%;"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BA%92%C4%81%CA%BE" title="Ẓāʾ">ظ</a></span>‎</span></span></span></span></span> </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Musnad_Logo.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Wikipedia_Musnad_Logo.png/220px-Wikipedia_Musnad_Logo.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="285" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Wikipedia_Musnad_Logo.png/330px-Wikipedia_Musnad_Logo.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Wikipedia_Musnad_Logo.png/440px-Wikipedia_Musnad_Logo.png 2x" data-file-width="1295" data-file-height="1678" /></a><figcaption>Wikipedia, written with <span title="Arabic-language romanization"><i lang="ar-Latn">musnad</i></span> letters, from right to left on the upper line and from left to right on the bottom one. Notice how the letters are mirrored.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Numerals">Numerals</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ancient_South_Arabian_script&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Numerals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Six signs are used for numbers: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>1</th> <th>5</th> <th>10</th> <th>50</th> <th>100</th> <th>1000 </th></tr> <tr align="center"> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩽</span></span></span></td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩭</span></span></span></td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩲</span></span></span></td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩾</span></span></span></td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩣</span></span></span></td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩱</span></span></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The sign for 50 was evidently created by removing the lower triangle from the sign for 100.<sup id="cite_ref-L208044_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-L208044-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The sign for 1 doubles as a word separator. The other four signs double as both letters and numbers. Each of these four signs is the first letter of the name of the corresponding numeral.<sup id="cite_ref-L208044_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-L208044-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An additional sign (<span style="font-size:120%">𐩿</span>) is used to bracket numbers, setting them apart from surrounding text.<sup id="cite_ref-L208044_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-L208044-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, ‏<span style="font-size:120%">𐩿𐩭𐩽𐩽𐩿</span>‎ </p><p>These signs are used in an additive system similar to <a href="/wiki/Roman_numerals" title="Roman numerals">Roman numerals</a> to represent any number (excluding zero). Two examples: </p> <ul><li>17 is written as 1 + 1 + 5 + 10: ‏<span style="font-size:120%">𐩲𐩭𐩽𐩽</span>‎</li> <li>99 is written as 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 5 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 50: <span style="font-size:120%">𐩾𐩲𐩲𐩲𐩲𐩭𐩽𐩽𐩽𐩽</span></li></ul> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Sample numbers from one to twenty </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>1</th> <th>2</th> <th>3</th> <th>4</th> <th>5</th> <th>6</th> <th>7</th> <th>8</th> <th>9</th> <th>10 </th></tr> <tr align="center"> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩽</span></span></span></td> <td>‏<span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩽𐩽</span></span></span>‎</td> <td>‏<span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩽𐩽𐩽</span></span></span>‎</td> <td>‏<span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩽𐩽𐩽𐩽</span></span></span>‎</td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩭</span></span></span></td> <td>‏<span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩭𐩽</span></span></span>‎</td> <td>‏<span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩭𐩽𐩽</span></span></span>‎</td> <td>‏<span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩭𐩽𐩽𐩽</span></span></span>‎</td> <td>‏<span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩭𐩽𐩽𐩽𐩽</span></span></span>‎</td> <td><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩲</span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th>11</th> <th>12</th> <th>13</th> <th>14</th> <th>15</th> <th>16</th> <th>17</th> <th>18</th> <th>19</th> <th>20 </th></tr> <tr align="center"> <td>‏<span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩲𐩽</span></span></span>‎</td> <td>‏<span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩲𐩽𐩽</span></span></span>‎</td> <td>‏<span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩲𐩽𐩽𐩽</span></span></span>‎</td> <td>‏<span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩲𐩽𐩽𐩽𐩽</span></span></span>‎</td> <td>‏<span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩲𐩭</span></span></span>‎</td> <td>‏<span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩲𐩭𐩽</span></span></span>‎</td> <td>‏<span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩲𐩭𐩽𐩽</span></span></span>‎</td> <td>‏<span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩲𐩭𐩽𐩽𐩽</span></span></span>‎</td> <td>‏<span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩲𐩭𐩽𐩽𐩽𐩽</span></span></span>‎</td> <td>‏<span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;">𐩲𐩲</span></span></span>‎ </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Thousands are written two different ways: </p> <ul><li>Smaller values are written using just the 1000 sign. For example, 8,000 is written as 1000 × 8: ‏<span style="font-size:120%">𐩱𐩱𐩱𐩱𐩱𐩱𐩱𐩱</span>‎</li> <li>Larger values are written by promoting the signs for 10, 50, and 100 to 10,000, 50,000, and 100,000 respectively: <ul><li>31,000 is written as 1000 + 10,000 × 3: ‏<span style="font-size:120%">𐩲𐩲𐩲𐩱</span>‎ (easily confused with 1,030)</li> <li>40,000 is written as 10,000 × 4: ‏<span style="font-size:120%">𐩲𐩲𐩲𐩲</span>‎ (easily confused with 40)</li> <li>253,000 is written as 2 × 100.000 + 50.000 + 3 × 1000: ‏<span style="font-size:120%">𐩣𐩣𐩾𐩱𐩱𐩱</span>‎ (easily confused with 3,250)</li></ul></li></ul> <p>Perhaps because of ambiguity, numerals, at least in monumental inscriptions, are always clarified with the numbers written out in words. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Zabūr"><span id="Zab.C5.ABr"></span>Zabūr</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ancient_South_Arabian_script&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Zabūr"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ghoul_A.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Ghoul_A.jpg/250px-Ghoul_A.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Ghoul_A.jpg/375px-Ghoul_A.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Ghoul_A.jpg/500px-Ghoul_A.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="991" /></a><figcaption>Zabur inscription</figcaption></figure> <p><i>Zabūr</i>, also known as "South Arabian <a href="/wiki/Lowercase" class="mw-redirect" title="Lowercase">minuscules</a>",<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStein2005_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStein2005-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is the name of the cursive form of the South Arabian script that was used by the <a href="/wiki/Sabaeans" title="Sabaeans">Sabaeans</a> in addition to their monumental script, or Musnad.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyckmansMüller‛Abdallah199443_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyckmansMüller‛Abdallah199443-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Zabur was a writing system in <a href="/wiki/Ancient_history_of_Yemen" title="Ancient history of Yemen">ancient Yemen</a> along with Musnad. The difference between the two is that Musnad documented historical events, meanwhile Zabur writings were used for religious scripts or to record daily transactions among ancient Yemenis. Zabur writings could be found in <a href="/wiki/Palimpsest" title="Palimpsest">palimpsest</a> form written on <a href="/wiki/Papyri" class="mw-redirect" title="Papyri">papyri</a> or palm-leaf stalks.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyckmans1993127_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyckmans1993127-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Unicode">Unicode</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ancient_South_Arabian_script&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Unicode"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Old_South_Arabian_(Unicode_block)" title="Old South Arabian (Unicode block)">Old South Arabian (Unicode block)</a></div> <p>The South Arabian alphabet was added to the <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a> Standard in October, 2009 with the release of version 5.2. </p><p>The Unicode block, called Old South Arabian, is U+10A60–U+10A7F. </p><p>Note that U+10A7D OLD SOUTH ARABIAN NUMBER ONE (𐩽) represents both the numeral one and a word divider.<sup id="cite_ref-L208044_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-L208044-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable nounderlines" style="border-collapse:collapse;background:var(--background-color-base,#fff);color:inherit;font-size:large;text-align:center"> <tbody><tr> <td colspan="17" style="background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);color:inherit;font-size:small"><b><a href="/wiki/Old_South_Arabian_(Unicode_block)" title="Old South Arabian (Unicode block)">Old South Arabian</a></b><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1041539562">.mw-parser-output .citation{word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}</style><sup class="citation nobold" id="ref_U10A60_as_of_Unicode_version"><a href="#endnote_U10A60_as_of_Unicode_version">[1]</a></sup><br /><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U10A60.pdf">Official Unicode Consortium code chart</a> (PDF) </td></tr> <tr style="background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);color:inherit;font-size:small"> <td style="width:45pt"> </td> <td style="width:20pt">0</td> <td style="width:20pt">1</td> <td style="width:20pt">2</td> <td style="width:20pt">3</td> <td style="width:20pt">4</td> <td style="width:20pt">5</td> <td style="width:20pt">6</td> <td style="width:20pt">7</td> <td style="width:20pt">8</td> <td style="width:20pt">9</td> <td style="width:20pt">A</td> <td style="width:20pt">B</td> <td style="width:20pt">C</td> <td style="width:20pt">D</td> <td style="width:20pt">E</td> <td style="width:20pt">F </td></tr> <tr style="font-family:Noto Sans Gothic, Segoe UI Historic"> <td style="background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);color:inherit;font-size:small;font-family:sans-serif">U+10A6x </td> <td title="U+10A60: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER HE">𐩠 </td> <td title="U+10A61: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER LAMEDH">𐩡 </td> <td title="U+10A62: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER HETH">𐩢 </td> <td title="U+10A63: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER MEM">𐩣 </td> <td title="U+10A64: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER QOPH">𐩤 </td> <td title="U+10A65: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER WAW">𐩥 </td> <td title="U+10A66: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER SHIN">𐩦 </td> <td title="U+10A67: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER RESH">𐩧 </td> <td title="U+10A68: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER BETH">𐩨 </td> <td title="U+10A69: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER TAW">𐩩 </td> <td title="U+10A6A: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER SAT">𐩪 </td> <td title="U+10A6B: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER KAPH">𐩫 </td> <td title="U+10A6C: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER NUN">𐩬 </td> <td title="U+10A6D: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER KHETH">𐩭 </td> <td title="U+10A6E: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER SADHE">𐩮 </td> <td title="U+10A6F: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER SAMEKH">𐩯 </td></tr> <tr style="font-family:Noto Sans Gothic, Segoe UI Historic"> <td style="background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);color:inherit;font-size:small;font-family:sans-serif">U+10A7x </td> <td title="U+10A70: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER FE">𐩰 </td> <td title="U+10A71: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER ALEF">𐩱 </td> <td title="U+10A72: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER AYN">𐩲 </td> <td title="U+10A73: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER DHADHE">𐩳 </td> <td title="U+10A74: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER GIMEL">𐩴 </td> <td title="U+10A75: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER DALETH">𐩵 </td> <td title="U+10A76: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER GHAYN">𐩶 </td> <td title="U+10A77: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER TETH">𐩷 </td> <td title="U+10A78: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER ZAYN">𐩸 </td> <td title="U+10A79: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER DHALETH">𐩹 </td> <td title="U+10A7A: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER YODH">𐩺 </td> <td title="U+10A7B: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER THAW">𐩻 </td> <td title="U+10A7C: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER THETH">𐩼 </td> <td title="U+10A7D: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN NUMBER ONE">𐩽 </td> <td title="U+10A7E: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN NUMBER FIFTY">𐩾 </td> <td title="U+10A7F: OLD SOUTH ARABIAN NUMERIC INDICATOR">𐩿 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="17" style="background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);color:inherit;font-size:small;text-align:left"><b>Notes</b> <dl><dd>1.<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_U10A60_as_of_Unicode_version"><b><a href="#ref_U10A60_as_of_Unicode_version">^</a></b></span> As of Unicode version 16.0</dd></dl> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_modern_culture">In modern culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ancient_South_Arabian_script&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: In modern culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Yemeni archeologist and linguist <a href="/wiki/Mutaher_al-Eryani" title="Mutaher al-Eryani">Mutaher al-Eryani</a>, was keen to record a memorial in the Musnad script and in the Sabaean language, commemorating the renovation of the Ma’rib Dam in 1986, which was carried out at the expense of Sheikh Zayed and in conjunction with the celebration of victory in the <a href="/wiki/North_Yemen_Civil_War" title="North Yemen Civil War">North Yemen Civil War</a> against the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Yemen" title="Kingdom of Yemen">Kingdom of Yemen</a>. The inscription was published in a scientific article written by the Frenchman Christian Robin as the last official Musnad inscription.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ancient_South_Arabian_script&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Photos from <a href="/wiki/National_Museum_of_Yemen" title="National Museum of Yemen">National Museum of Yemen</a>:</li></ul> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sabaic_inscription_(YM_371)_in_the_National_Museum_of_Yemen.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Sabaic_inscription_%28YM_371%29_in_the_National_Museum_of_Yemen.jpg/120px-Sabaic_inscription_%28YM_371%29_in_the_National_Museum_of_Yemen.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Sabaic_inscription_%28YM_371%29_in_the_National_Museum_of_Yemen.jpg/180px-Sabaic_inscription_%28YM_371%29_in_the_National_Museum_of_Yemen.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Sabaic_inscription_%28YM_371%29_in_the_National_Museum_of_Yemen.jpg/240px-Sabaic_inscription_%28YM_371%29_in_the_National_Museum_of_Yemen.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sana%27_national_museum_03.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Sana%27_national_museum_03.jpg/102px-Sana%27_national_museum_03.jpg" decoding="async" width="102" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Sana%27_national_museum_03.jpg/152px-Sana%27_national_museum_03.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Sana%27_national_museum_03.jpg/203px-Sana%27_national_museum_03.jpg 2x" data-file-width="628" data-file-height="741" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sana%27_national_museum_04.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Sana%27_national_museum_04.jpg/73px-Sana%27_national_museum_04.jpg" decoding="async" width="73" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Sana%27_national_museum_04.jpg/109px-Sana%27_national_museum_04.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Sana%27_national_museum_04.jpg/146px-Sana%27_national_museum_04.jpg 2x" data-file-width="694" data-file-height="1139" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; 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height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sana%27_national_museum_10.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Sana%27_national_museum_10.jpg/120px-Sana%27_national_museum_10.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Sana%27_national_museum_10.jpg/180px-Sana%27_national_museum_10.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Sana%27_national_museum_10.jpg/240px-Sana%27_national_museum_10.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1148" data-file-height="715" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sana%27_national_museum_11.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Sana%27_national_museum_11.jpg/120px-Sana%27_national_museum_11.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="71" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Sana%27_national_museum_11.jpg/180px-Sana%27_national_museum_11.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Sana%27_national_museum_11.jpg/240px-Sana%27_national_museum_11.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1149" data-file-height="683" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sana%27_national_museum_12.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Sana%27_national_museum_12.jpg/77px-Sana%27_national_museum_12.jpg" decoding="async" width="77" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Sana%27_national_museum_12.jpg/116px-Sana%27_national_museum_12.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Sana%27_national_museum_12.jpg/154px-Sana%27_national_museum_12.jpg 2x" data-file-width="626" data-file-height="974" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sana%27_national_museum_13.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Sana%27_national_museum_13.jpg/120px-Sana%27_national_museum_13.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="93" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Sana%27_national_museum_13.jpg/180px-Sana%27_national_museum_13.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Sana%27_national_museum_13.jpg/240px-Sana%27_national_museum_13.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1056" data-file-height="822" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> </ul> <ul><li>Photos from <a href="/wiki/Yemen_Military_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Yemen Military Museum">Yemen Military Museum</a>:</li></ul> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sana%27_military_museum_05.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Sana%27_military_museum_05.JPG/120px-Sana%27_military_museum_05.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="89" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Sana%27_military_museum_05.JPG/180px-Sana%27_military_museum_05.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Sana%27_military_museum_05.JPG/240px-Sana%27_military_museum_05.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2782" data-file-height="2072" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sana%27_military_museum_06.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Sana%27_military_museum_06.JPG/57px-Sana%27_military_museum_06.JPG" decoding="async" width="57" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Sana%27_military_museum_06.JPG/86px-Sana%27_military_museum_06.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Sana%27_military_museum_06.JPG/115px-Sana%27_military_museum_06.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1244" data-file-height="2597" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sana%27_military_museum_08.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Sana%27_military_museum_08.JPG/120px-Sana%27_military_museum_08.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Sana%27_military_museum_08.JPG/180px-Sana%27_military_museum_08.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Sana%27_military_museum_08.JPG/240px-Sana%27_military_museum_08.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2206" data-file-height="2027" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> </ul> <ul><li>Photo from the British Museum</li></ul> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Incense_burner,_from_Yemen,_5th-4th_century_BCE._An_ancient_South_Arabian_inscription_about_the_names_of_incense._British_Museum.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Incense burner, from Yemen, 5th-4th century BCE. An ancient South Arabian inscription about the names of incense"><img alt="Incense burner, from Yemen, 5th-4th century BCE. 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An ancient South Arabian inscription about the names of incense</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ancient_South_Arabian_script&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Old_North_Arabian_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Old North Arabian script">Ancient North Arabian script</a></li> <li>Arabist and archeologist <a href="/wiki/Eduard_Glaser" title="Eduard Glaser">Eduard Glaser</a></li> <li>Geographer <a href="/wiki/Carl_Rathjens" title="Carl Rathjens">Carl Rathjens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paleo-Arabic" title="Paleo-Arabic">Paleo-Arabic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Hungarian_script" title="Old Hungarian script">Old Hungarian script</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 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Cambridge University Press. p. 431. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-56256-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-521-56256-2"><bdi>0-521-56256-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Ge%27ez+%28Aksum%29&rft.btitle=The+Cambridge+Encyclopedia+of+the+World%27s+Ancient+Languages&rft.pages=431&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=0-521-56256-2&rft.aulast=Gragg&rft.aufirst=Gene&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAncient+South+Arabian+script" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStein2013" class="citation journal cs1">Stein, Peter (2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.academia.edu/7131233">"Palaeography of the Ancient South Arabian script. New evidence for an absolute chronology"</a>. <i>Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy</i>. <b>24</b> (2): 186–195. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1111%2Faae.12024">10.1111/aae.12024</a></span>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0905-7196">0905-7196</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Arabian+Archaeology+and+Epigraphy&rft.atitle=Palaeography+of+the+Ancient+South+Arabian+script.+New+evidence+for+an+absolute+chronology&rft.volume=24&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=186-195&rft.date=2013&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1111%2Faae.12024&rft.issn=0905-7196&rft.aulast=Stein&rft.aufirst=Peter&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.academia.edu%2F7131233&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAncient+South+Arabian+script" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ibn Durayd, <i>Ta‘līq min amāli ibn durayd,</i> ed. al-Sanūsī, Muṣṭafā, Kuwait 1984, p. 227 (Arabic). 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navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5em">Northern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bengali%E2%80%93Assamese_script" title="Bengali–Assamese script">Bengali–Assamese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhaiksuki_script" title="Bhaiksuki script">Bhaiksuki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brahmi_script" title="Brahmi script">Brahmi script</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devanagari" title="Devanagari">Devanagari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dogri_script" title="Dogri script">Dogri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gujarati_script" title="Gujarati script">Gujarati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gupta_script" title="Gupta script">Gupta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gurmukhi" title="Gurmukhi">Gurmukhi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaithi" title="Kaithi">Kaithi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalinga_script" title="Kalinga script">Kalinga</a></li> <li><a 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title="Kulitan">Kulitan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tai_Tham_script" title="Tai Tham script">Lanna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Langdi" title="Langdi">Langdi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lao_script" title="Lao script">Lao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leke_script" title="Leke script">Leke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lontara_script" title="Lontara script">Lontara</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lontara_Bilang-bilang_script" title="Lontara Bilang-bilang script">Bilang-bilang</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Makasar_script" title="Makasar script">Makasar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malayalam_script" title="Malayalam script">Malayalam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maldivian_writing_systems" title="Maldivian writing systems">Old Maldivian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dhives_Akuru" title="Dhives Akuru">Dhives Akuru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eveyla_Akuru" class="mw-redirect" title="Eveyla Akuru">Eveyla Akuru</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mon%E2%80%93Burmese_script" title="Mon–Burmese 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href="/wiki/Tai_Tham_script" title="Tai Tham script">Tai Tham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tai_Viet_script" title="Tai Viet script">Tai Viet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lai_Tay_script" title="Lai Tay script">Lai Tay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_script" title="Tamil script">Tamil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil-Brahmi" title="Tamil-Brahmi">Tamil-Brahmi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tanchangya_script" title="Tanchangya script">Tanchangya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telugu_script" title="Telugu script">Telugu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thai_script" title="Thai script">Thai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tigalari_script" title="Tigalari script">Tigalari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulu_scripts" title="Ulu scripts">Ulu scripts</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Incung_script&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Incung script (page does not exist)">Incung</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lampung_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Lampung script">Lampung</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lembak_script&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lembak script (page does not exist)">Lembak</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ogan_script&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ogan script (page does not exist)">Ogan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pasemah_script&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pasemah script (page does not exist)">Pasemah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rejang_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Rejang script">Rejang</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Serawai_script&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Serawai script (page does not exist)">Serawai</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vatteluttu" title="Vatteluttu">Vatteluttu</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kolezhuthu" class="mw-redirect" title="Kolezhuthu">Kolezhuthu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malayanma" title="Malayanma">Malayanma</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5em">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bharati_script" title="Bharati script">Bharati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boyd%27s_syllabic_shorthand" title="Boyd's syllabic shorthand">Boyd's syllabic shorthand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_Aboriginal_syllabics" title="Canadian Aboriginal syllabics">Canadian syllabics</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blackfoot_language#Writing_system" title="Blackfoot language">Blackfoot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carrier_syllabics" title="Carrier syllabics">Déné syllabics</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dham_script" title="Dham script">Dham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fox_language#Writing_systems" title="Fox language">Fox I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ge%CA%BDez_script" title="Geʽez script">Geʽez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gunjala_Gondi_script" title="Gunjala Gondi script">Gunjala Gondi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_Braille" title="Japanese Braille">Japanese Braille</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarati" title="Sarati">Sarati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunwar_language#Writing_Systems" title="Sunwar language">Jenticha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kharosthi" title="Kharosthi">Kharosthi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandombe_script" title="Mandombe script">Mandombe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gondi_writing" title="Gondi writing">Masaram Gondi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meroitic_script" title="Meroitic script">Meroitic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pollard_script" title="Pollard script">Miao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mwangwego_script" title="Mwangwego script">Mwangwego</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pahawh_Hmong" title="Pahawh Hmong">Pahawh Hmong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sorang_Sompeng_script" title="Sorang Sompeng script">Sorang Sompeng</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tengwar" title="Tengwar">Tengwar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thaana" title="Thaana">Thaana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Natural_Shorthand" title="Thomas Natural Shorthand">Thomas Natural Shorthand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warang_Citi" title="Warang Citi">Warang Citi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mwangwego_script" title="Mwangwego script">Mwangwego</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qiang_language" title="Qiang language">Rma</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Alphabets" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Alphabet" title="Alphabet">Alphabets</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Linear</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adlam_script" title="Adlam script">Adlam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariyaka_script" title="Ariyaka script">Ariyaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_alphabet" title="Armenian alphabet">Armenian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avestan_alphabet" title="Avestan alphabet">Avestan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pazend" title="Pazend">Pazend</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avoiuli" title="Avoiuli">Avoiuli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bassa_Vah_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Bassa Vah script">Bassa Vah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carian_alphabets" title="Carian alphabets">Carian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caucasian_Albanian_script" title="Caucasian Albanian script">Caucasian Albanian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cirth" title="Cirth">Cirth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coelbren_y_Beirdd" title="Coelbren y Beirdd">Coelbren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coorgi%E2%80%93Cox_alphabet" title="Coorgi–Cox alphabet">Coorgi–Cox alphabet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coptic_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Coptic alphabet">Coptic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyrillic_script" title="Cyrillic script">Cyrillic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bosnian_Cyrillic" title="Bosnian Cyrillic">Bosnian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Early_Cyrillic_alphabet" title="Early Cyrillic alphabet">Early</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deseret_alphabet" title="Deseret alphabet">Deseret</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duployan_shorthand" title="Duployan shorthand">Duployan shorthand</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Duployan_shorthand#Chinook_writing" title="Duployan shorthand">Chinook</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eclectic_shorthand" title="Eclectic shorthand">Eclectic shorthand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elbasan_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Elbasan script">Elbasan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enochian" title="Enochian">Enochian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Etruscan_alphabet" title="Etruscan alphabet">Etruscan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Psalmanazar#Pseudo-lexicographer" title="George Psalmanazar">Formosan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fox_language#Writing_systems" title="Fox language">Fox II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fraser_script" title="Fraser script">Fraser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gabelsberger_shorthand" title="Gabelsberger shorthand">Gabelsberger shorthand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gadabuursi_Somali_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Gadabuursi Somali script">Gadabuursi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garay_alphabet" title="Garay alphabet">Garay alphabet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgian_scripts" title="Georgian scripts">Georgian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asomtavruli" class="mw-redirect" title="Asomtavruli">Asomtavruli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nuskhuri" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuskhuri">Nuskhuri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mkhedruli" class="mw-redirect" title="Mkhedruli">Mkhedruli</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Veso_Bey_alphabet" title="Veso Bey alphabet">Veso Bey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glagolitic_script" title="Glagolitic script">Glagolitic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gothic_alphabet" title="Gothic alphabet">Gothic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregg_shorthand" title="Gregg shorthand">Gregg shorthand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_alphabet" title="Greek alphabet">Greek</a> (<a href="/wiki/Archaic_Greek_alphabets" title="Archaic Greek alphabets">Archaic</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greco-Iberian_alphabet" title="Greco-Iberian alphabet">Greco-Iberian alphabet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hangul" title="Hangul">Hangul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanifi_Rohingya_script" title="Hanifi Rohingya script">Hanifi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunwar_language#Writing_Systems" title="Sunwar language">Jenticha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaddare_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaddare script">Kaddare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kayah_Li_alphabet" title="Kayah Li alphabet">Kayah Li</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klingon_scripts" title="Klingon scripts">Klingon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_script" title="Latin script">Latin</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beneventan_script" title="Beneventan script">Beneventan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackletter" title="Blackletter">Blackletter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carolingian_minuscule" title="Carolingian minuscule">Carolingian minuscule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fraktur" title="Fraktur">Fraktur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaelic_type" title="Gaelic type">Gaelic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Insular_script" title="Insular script">Insular</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interlac" class="mw-redirect" title="Interlac">Interlac</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurrent" title="Kurrent">Kurrent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merovingian_script" title="Merovingian script">Merovingian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scribal_abbreviation" title="Scribal abbreviation">Sigla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%BCtterlin" title="Sütterlin">Sütterlin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tironian_notes" title="Tironian notes">Tironian notes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visigothic_script" title="Visigothic script">Visigothic</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luo_script" title="Luo script">Luo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lycian_alphabet" title="Lycian alphabet">Lycian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lydian_alphabet" title="Lydian alphabet">Lydian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchu_alphabet" title="Manchu alphabet">Manchu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medefaidrin" title="Medefaidrin">Medefaidrin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Molodtsov_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Molodtsov alphabet">Molodtsov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mru_language#Script" title="Mru language">Mru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mundari_Bani" title="Mundari Bani">Mundari Bani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N%27Ko_script" title="N'Ko script">N'Ko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ogham" title="Ogham">Ogham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ol_Chiki_script" title="Ol Chiki script">Ol Chiki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Hungarian_script" title="Old Hungarian script">Old Hungarian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Italic_scripts" title="Old Italic scripts">Old Italic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Permic_script" title="Old Permic script">Old Permic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Turkic_script" title="Old Turkic script">Orkhon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Uyghur_alphabet" title="Old Uyghur alphabet">Old Uyghur</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mongolian_script" title="Mongolian script">Mongolian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Evenki_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Evenki alphabet">Evenki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galik_alphabet" title="Galik alphabet">Galik alphabet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchu_alphabet" title="Manchu alphabet">Manchu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clear_Script" title="Clear Script">Oirat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vagindra_script" title="Vagindra script">Vagindra</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ol_Onal" title="Ol Onal">Ol Onal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osage_script" title="Osage script">Osage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osmanya_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Osmanya script">Osmanya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pau_Cin_Hau_script" title="Pau Cin Hau script">Pau Cin Hau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phrygian_alphabet" title="Phrygian alphabet">Phrygian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pisidian_language" title="Pisidian language">Pisidian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Runes" class="mw-redirect" title="Runes">Runic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_runes" title="Anglo-Saxon runes">Anglo-Saxon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cipher_runes" title="Cipher runes">Cipher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dalecarlian_runes" title="Dalecarlian runes">Dalecarlian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elder_Futhark" title="Elder Futhark">Elder Futhark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Younger_Futhark" title="Younger Futhark">Younger Futhark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gothic_runic_inscriptions" title="Gothic runic inscriptions">Gothic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcomannic_runes" class="mw-redirect" title="Marcomannic runes">Marcomannic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medieval_runes" title="Medieval runes">Medieval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Staveless_runes" title="Staveless runes">Staveless</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shavian_alphabet" title="Shavian alphabet">Shavian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidetic_language" title="Sidetic language">Sidetic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sorang_Sompeng_script" title="Sorang Sompeng script">Sorang Sompeng</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunuwar_alphabet" title="Sunuwar alphabet">Sunuwar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tifinagh" title="Tifinagh">Tifinagh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Todhri_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Todhri script">Todhri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurukh_language#Writing_systems" title="Kurukh language">Tolong Siki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vellara_alphabet" title="Vellara alphabet">Vellara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visible_Speech" title="Visible Speech">Visible Speech</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vithkuqi_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Vithkuqi script">Vithkuqi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wancho_language#Orthography" title="Wancho language">Wancho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warang_Citi" title="Warang Citi">Warang Citi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurdish_alphabets#Yezidi" title="Kurdish alphabets">Yezidi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zaghawa_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Zaghawa script">Zaghawa</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Non-linear</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Braille" title="Braille">Braille</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_maritime_signal_flags" title="International maritime signal flags">Maritime flags</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telegraph_code" title="Telegraph code">Telegraph code</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_Point" title="New York Point">New York Point</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flag_semaphore" title="Flag semaphore">Flag semaphore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moon_type" title="Moon type">Moon type</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Ideograms" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Ideogram" title="Ideogram">Ideograms</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adinkra_symbols" title="Adinkra symbols">Adinkra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aztec_script" title="Aztec script">Aztec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blissymbols" title="Blissymbols">Blissymbols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dongba_symbols" title="Dongba symbols">Dongba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ersu_Shaba_script" title="Ersu Shaba script">Ersu Shaba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emoji" title="Emoji">Emoji</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isotype_(picture_language)" title="Isotype (picture language)">Isotype</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaid%C4%81_glyphs" title="Kaidā glyphs">Kaidā</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mi%EA%9E%8Ckmaw_hieroglyphic_writing" class="mw-redirect" title="Miꞌkmaw hieroglyphic writing">Miꞌkmaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mixtec_writing" title="Mixtec writing">Mixtec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Epoch_Notation_Painting" class="mw-redirect" title="New Epoch Notation Painting">New Epoch Notation Painting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nsibidi" title="Nsibidi">Nsibidi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ojibwe_writing_systems#Ojibwe_"hieroglyphs"" title="Ojibwe writing systems">Ojibwe Hieroglyphs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olmec_hieroglyphs" title="Olmec hieroglyphs">Olmec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siglas_poveiras" title="Siglas poveiras">Siglas poveiras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Testerian" title="Testerian">Testerian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yerkish" title="Yerkish">Yerkish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zapotec_script" title="Zapotec script">Zapotec</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Logograms" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Logogram" title="Logogram">Logograms</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em"><a href="/wiki/Chinese_family_of_scripts" title="Chinese family of scripts">Chinese family of scripts</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em"><a href="/wiki/Chinese_characters" title="Chinese characters">Chinese characters</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters" title="Simplified Chinese characters">Simplified</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters" title="Traditional Chinese characters">Traditional</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oracle_bone_script" title="Oracle bone script">Oracle bone script</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_bronze_inscriptions" title="Chinese bronze inscriptions">Bronze scripts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seal_script" title="Seal script">Seal script</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Large_seal_script" title="Large seal script">large</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Small_seal_script" title="Small seal script">small</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bird-worm_seal_script" title="Bird-worm seal script">bird-worm</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanja" title="Hanja">Hanja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanji" title="Kanji">Kanji</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ch%E1%BB%AF_N%C3%B4m" title="Chữ Nôm">Chữ Nôm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sawndip" title="Sawndip">Sawndip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bowen_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Bowen script">Bowen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Chinese-influenced</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jurchen_script" title="Jurchen script">Jurchen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khitan_large_script" title="Khitan large script">Khitan large script</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sui_script" title="Sui script">Sui</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tangut_script" title="Tangut script">Tangut</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em"><a href="/wiki/Cuneiform" title="Cuneiform">Cuneiform</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Akkadian_cuneiform" class="mw-redirect" title="Akkadian cuneiform">Akkadian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assyrian_cuneiform" class="mw-redirect" title="Assyrian cuneiform">Assyrian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elamite_cuneiform" title="Elamite cuneiform">Elamite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hittite_cuneiform" title="Hittite cuneiform">Hittite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuneiform_Luwian" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuneiform Luwian">Luwian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuneiform" title="Cuneiform">Sumerian</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Other logosyllabic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anatolian_hieroglyphs" title="Anatolian hieroglyphs">Anatolian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bagam_script" title="Bagam script">Bagam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cretan_hieroglyphs" title="Cretan hieroglyphs">Cretan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isthmian_script" title="Isthmian script">Isthmian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maya_script" title="Maya script">Maya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Elamite_script" title="Proto-Elamite script">Proto-Elamite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tenevil" title="Tenevil">Tenevil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yi_script#Classical_Yi" title="Yi script">Yi (Classical)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Logoconsonantal</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Demotic_(Egyptian)" title="Demotic (Egyptian)">Demotic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hieratic" title="Hieratic">Hieratic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs" title="Egyptian hieroglyphs">Hieroglyphs</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Numerals</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral_system" title="Hindu–Arabic numeral system">Hindu-Arabic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abjad_numerals" title="Abjad numerals">Abjad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attic_numerals" title="Attic numerals">Attic (Greek)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muisca_numerals" title="Muisca numerals">Muisca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_numerals" title="Roman numerals">Roman</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sitelen_Pona" title="Sitelen Pona">Sitelen Pona</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Semi-syllabaries" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Semi-syllabaries" class="mw-redirect" title="Semi-syllabaries">Semi-syllabaries</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Full</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Linear_Elamite" title="Linear Elamite">Linear Elamite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celtiberian_script" title="Celtiberian script">Celtiberian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northeastern_Iberian_script" title="Northeastern Iberian script">Northeastern Iberian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southeastern_Iberian_script" title="Southeastern Iberian script">Southeastern Iberian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khom_script_(Ong_Kommadam)" title="Khom script (Ong Kommadam)">Khom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dunging_script" title="Dunging script">Dunging</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Redundant</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Espanca_script" title="Espanca script">Espanca script</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pahawh_Hmong" title="Pahawh Hmong">Pahawh Hmong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khitan_small_script" title="Khitan small script">Khitan small script</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southwest_Paleohispanic_script" title="Southwest Paleohispanic script">Southwest Paleohispanic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bopomofo" title="Bopomofo">Bopomofo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_writing_in_Vietnam#Quốc_Âm_Tân_Tự" title="History of writing in Vietnam">Quốc Âm Tân Tự</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Sign_languages" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Sign_language" title="Sign language">Sign languages</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ASLwrite" title="ASLwrite">ASLwrite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SignWriting" title="SignWriting">SignWriting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Si5s" title="Si5s">si5s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stokoe_notation" title="Stokoe notation">Stokoe notation</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Syllabaries" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Syllabary" title="Syllabary">Syllabaries</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afaka_syllabary" title="Afaka syllabary">Afaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bamum_script" title="Bamum script">Bamum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9t%C3%A9_syllabary" title="Bété syllabary">Bété</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Byblos_syllabary" title="Byblos syllabary">Byblos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_Aboriginal_syllabics" title="Canadian Aboriginal syllabics">Canadian Aboriginal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary" title="Cherokee syllabary">Cherokee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cypriot_syllabary" title="Cypriot syllabary">Cypriot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cypro-Minoan_syllabary" title="Cypro-Minoan syllabary">Cypro-Minoan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ditema_tsa_Dinoko" title="Ditema tsa Dinoko">Ditema tsa Dinoko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eskayan_script" title="Eskayan script">Eskayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geba_syllabary" title="Geba syllabary">Geba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Lakes_Algonquian_syllabics" title="Great Lakes Algonquian syllabics">Great Lakes Algonquian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iban_language#Alphabet" title="Iban language">Iban</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Idu_script" title="Idu script">Idu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kana" title="Kana">Kana</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hiragana" title="Hiragana">Hiragana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katakana" title="Katakana">Katakana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Man%27y%C5%8Dgana" title="Man'yōgana">Man'yōgana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hentaigana" title="Hentaigana">Hentaigana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C5%8Dgana" title="Sōgana">Sōgana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jindai_moji" title="Jindai moji">Jindai moji</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mende_Kikakui_script" title="Mende Kikakui script">Kikakui</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kpelle_syllabary" title="Kpelle syllabary">Kpelle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linear_B" title="Linear B">Linear B</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linear_Elamite" title="Linear Elamite">Linear Elamite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lisu_language#Lisu_syllabary" title="Lisu language">Lisu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loma_language#writing_systems" title="Loma language">Loma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N%C3%BCshu" title="Nüshu">Nüshu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nwagu_Aneke_script" title="Nwagu Aneke script">Nwagu Aneke script</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Persian_cuneiform" title="Old Persian cuneiform">Old Persian cuneiform</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuneiform" title="Cuneiform">Sumerian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vai_syllabary" title="Vai syllabary">Vai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woleai_script" title="Woleai script">Woleai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yi_script#Modern_Yi" title="Yi script">Yi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yugtun_script" title="Yugtun script">Yugtun</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Braille" title="Template:Braille"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Braille" title="Template talk:Braille"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Braille" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Braille"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Braille_⠃⠗⠁⠊⠇⠇⠑" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Braille" title="Braille">Braille</a><span style="padding-left:0.5em;"> </span>⠃⠗⠁⠊⠇⠇⠑</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Braille cell</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1829_braille" title="1829 braille">1829 braille</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/International_uniformity_of_braille_alphabets" title="International uniformity of braille alphabets">International uniformity</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Braille_ASCII" title="Braille ASCII">ASCII braille</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Braille_Patterns" title="Braille Patterns">Unicode braille patterns</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Braille scripts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:French-ordered_braille_alphabets" title="Category:French-ordered braille alphabets">French-ordered</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Albanian_Braille" title="Albanian Braille">Albanian</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Azeri_Braille" class="mw-redirect" title="Azeri Braille">Azerbaijani</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Cantonese_Braille" title="Cantonese Braille">Cantonese</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Catalan_Braille" title="Catalan Braille">Catalan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mainland_Chinese_Braille" title="Mainland Chinese Braille">Chinese (mainland Mandarin)</a> (largely reassigned)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Czech_Braille" title="Czech Braille">Czech</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dutch_Braille" title="Dutch Braille">Dutch</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/English_Braille" title="English Braille">English</a> (<a href="/wiki/Unified_English_Braille" title="Unified English Braille">Unified English</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Esperanto_Braille" title="Esperanto Braille">Esperanto</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/French_Braille" title="French Braille">French</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_Braille" title="German Braille">German</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ghanaian_braille" title="Ghanaian braille">Ghanaian</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Guarani_Braille" title="Guarani Braille">Guarani</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hawaiian_Braille" title="Hawaiian Braille">Hawaiian</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Braille" title="Hungarian Braille">Hungarian</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/I%C3%B1upiaq_Braille" title="Iñupiaq Braille">Iñupiaq</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/IPA_Braille" title="IPA Braille">IPA</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Irish_Braille" title="Irish Braille">Irish</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Italian_Braille" title="Italian Braille">Italian</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Latvian_Braille" title="Latvian Braille">Latvian</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_Braille" title="Lithuanian Braille">Lithuanian</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Luxembourgish_Braille" title="Luxembourgish Braille">Luxembourgish</a> (extended to 8-dot)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Maltese_Braille" title="Maltese Braille">Maltese</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_Braille" title="Māori Braille">Māori</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Navajo_Braille" title="Navajo Braille">Navajo</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Nigerian_braille" title="Nigerian braille">Nigerian</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Philippine_Braille" title="Philippine Braille">Philippine</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Polish_Braille" title="Polish Braille">Polish</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Braille" title="Portuguese Braille">Portuguese</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Romanian_Braille" title="Romanian Braille">Romanian</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Samoan_Braille" title="Samoan Braille">Samoan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Slovak_Braille" title="Slovak Braille">Slovak</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/South_African_braille" title="South African braille">South African</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Braille" title="Spanish Braille">Spanish</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Taiwanese_Braille" title="Taiwanese Braille">Taiwanese Mandarin</a> (largely reassigned)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Turkish_Braille" title="Turkish Braille">Turkish</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_Braille" title="Vietnamese Braille">Vietnamese</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Welsh_Braille" title="Welsh Braille">Welsh</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Yugoslav_Braille" title="Yugoslav Braille">Yugoslav</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Zambian_Braille" title="Zambian Braille">Zambian</a></span></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Nordic family</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Estonian_Braille" title="Estonian Braille">Estonian</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Faroese_Braille" title="Faroese Braille">Faroese</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Icelandic_Braille" title="Icelandic Braille">Icelandic</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Scandinavian_Braille" title="Scandinavian Braille">Scandinavian</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">Danish</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Finnish</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Greenlandic</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Northern_S%C3%A1mi_Braille" title="Northern Sámi Braille">Northern Sámi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Norwegian</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Swedish</span></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Russian lineage family<br />i.e. <a href="/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabets" title="Cyrillic alphabets">Cyrillic</a>-mediated scripts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Belarusian_Braille" title="Belarusian Braille">Belarusian</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Braille" title="Bulgarian Braille">Bulgarian</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kazakh_Braille" title="Kazakh Braille">Kazakh</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kyrgyz_Braille" title="Kyrgyz Braille">Kyrgyz</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mongolian_Braille" title="Mongolian Braille">Mongolian</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Russian_Braille" title="Russian Braille">Russian</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tatar_Braille" title="Tatar Braille">Tatar</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Braille" title="Ukrainian Braille">Ukrainian</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Egyptian lineage family<br />i.e. <a href="/wiki/Arabic_script" title="Arabic script">Arabic</a>-mediated scripts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Arabic_Braille" title="Arabic Braille">Arabic</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Persian_Braille" title="Persian Braille">Persian</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Urdu_Braille" title="Urdu Braille">Urdu</a> (Pakistan)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Indian lineage family<br />i.e. <a href="/wiki/Bharati_Braille" title="Bharati Braille">Bharati Braille</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Devanagari_Braille" title="Devanagari Braille">Devanagari (Hindi / Marathi / Nepali)</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bengali_Braille" title="Bengali Braille">Bengali (Bangla / Assamese)</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Gujarati_Braille" title="Gujarati Braille">Gujarati</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kannada_Braille" title="Kannada Braille">Kannada</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Malayalam_Braille" title="Malayalam Braille">Malayalam</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Odia_Braille" title="Odia Braille">Odia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Punjabi_Braille" title="Punjabi Braille">Punjabi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sinhala_Braille" title="Sinhala Braille">Sinhala</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tamil_Braille" title="Tamil Braille">Tamil</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Telugu_Braille" title="Telugu Braille">Telugu</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Urdu_Braille" title="Urdu Braille">Urdu</a> (India)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other scripts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ge%27ez_Braille" class="mw-redirect" title="Ge'ez Braille">Amharic</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Armenian_Braille" title="Armenian Braille">Armenian</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Burmese_Braille" title="Burmese Braille">Burmese</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dzongkha_Braille" title="Dzongkha Braille">Dzongkha</a> (Bhutanese)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Georgian_Braille" title="Georgian Braille">Georgian</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Greek_Braille" title="Greek Braille">Greek</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hebrew_Braille" title="Hebrew Braille">Hebrew</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Inuktitut_Braille" title="Inuktitut Braille">Inuktitut</a> (reassigned vowels)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Khmer_Braille" title="Khmer Braille">Khmer</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Thai_and_Lao_Braille" title="Thai and Lao Braille">Thai and Lao</a> (Japanese vowels)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tibetan_Braille" title="Tibetan Braille">Tibetan</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Reordered</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Algerian_Braille" title="Algerian Braille">Algerian Braille</a> (obsolete)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Frequency-based</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/American_Braille" title="American Braille">American Braille</a> (obsolete)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Independent</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">Chinese semi-syllabaries</span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Cantonese_Braille" title="Cantonese Braille">Cantonese</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mainland_Chinese_Braille" title="Mainland Chinese Braille">Mainland Chinese Mandarin</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Taiwanese_Braille" title="Taiwanese Braille">Taiwanese Mandarin</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Two-cell_Chinese_Braille" title="Two-cell Chinese Braille">Two-cell Chinese (Shuangpin)</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_Braille" title="Japanese Braille">Japanese</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Korean_Braille" title="Korean Braille">Korean</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Eight-dot</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Luxembourgish_Braille" title="Luxembourgish Braille">Luxembourgish</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Braille_kanji" title="Braille kanji">Kanji</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Gardner%E2%80%93Salinas_braille_codes" title="Gardner–Salinas braille codes">Gardner–Salinas braille codes</a> (GS8)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Symbols in braille</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Braille_music" title="Braille music">Braille music</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Canadian_currency_tactile_feature" title="Canadian currency tactile feature">Canadian currency 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class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Braille_embosser" title="Braille embosser">Braille embosser</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Braille_translator" title="Braille translator">Braille translator</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Braille_watch" title="Braille watch">Braille watch</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mountbatten_Brailler" title="Mountbatten Brailler">Mountbatten Brailler</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Optical_braille_recognition" title="Optical braille recognition">Optical braille recognition</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Perforation" title="Perforation">Perforation</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Perkins_Brailler" title="Perkins Brailler">Perkins Brailler</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Refreshable_braille_display" title="Refreshable braille display">Refreshable braille display</a></span></li> <li><span 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