Abjad Arab Selatan Kuno: Perbedaan antara revisi

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[[Berkas:Panel Almaqah Louvre DAO18.jpg|thumb|Prasasti Jazirah Selatan Kuno ditujukan kepada dewa Saba bernama [[Almaqah]].]]

 

Abjad ini secara populer digunakan pada tahun 800 SM, dan terus digunakan hingga abad ke-6 M, termasuk prasasti-prasasti [[abjad Jazirah Utara Kuno]], lalu digantikan oleh [[abjad Arab]].<ref>Ibn Durayd, ''Ta‘līq min amāli ibn durayd,'' ed. al-Sanūsī, Muṣṭafā, Kuwait 1984, p. 227 (Arabic). The author purports that a poet from the Kinda tribe in Yemen who settled in Dūmat al-Ǧandal during the advent of Islam told of how another member of the Yemenite Kinda tribe who lived in that town taught the Arabic script to the Banū Qurayš in Mecca and that their use of the Arabic script for writing eventually took the place of ''musnad'', or what was then the Sabaean script of the kingdom of Ḥimyar: "You have exchanged the ''musnad'' of the sons of Ḥimyar / which the kings of Ḥimyar were wont to write down in books."</ref> Di [[Etiopia]] dan [[Eritrea]], abjad ini menurunkan [[aksara Ge'ez]],<ref name = WorldsWritingSystems89/><ref name=CambridgeAncientLanguages431/> dengan huruf tambahan, digunakan untuk menulis [[bahasa Amhar]], [[Bahasa Tigrinya|Tigrinya]], dan [[Bahasa Tigre|Tigre]].