Thamudic language

Thamudic
Region	Arabia
Extinct	marginalized by Classical Arabic from the 7th century
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Arabic Old North Arabian Thamudic
Writing system	South Arabian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	xna-tha (omitted)

Thamudic inscriptions in Wadi Rum in Jordan

Thamudic (الثمودية in Arabic) is an Old North Arabian dialect known from pre-Islamic inscriptions scattered across the Arabian desert and the Sinai. Dating to between the 4th century BC and the 3rd or 4th century AD, they were incorrectly named after the Thamud people, with whom they are not directly associated.

References

• Lipinski, Edward (2001). Semitic Languages: Outlines of a Comparative Grammar (2nd ed. ed.). Leuven: Orientalia Lovanensia Analecta. p. 75. 

External links

• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History - Pre-Islamic Period Inscriptions - Thamudic
• Article from the Departmental Journal published by the Arab Writers Union in Damascus (in Arabic)