Hasaitic

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title: "Hasaitic" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["arabic-languages", "history-of-eastern-province,-saudi-arabia", "ancient-north-arabian", "extinct-languages-of-asia"] description: "Ancient North Arabian dialect" topic_path: "linguistics" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasaitic" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Ancient North Arabian dialect ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox language"]

Field	Value
name	Hasaitic
altname	Hasaean
region	Arabia
extinct	marginalized by Classical Arabic from the 7th century
ref
familycolor	Afro-Asiatic
fam2	Semitic
fam3	West Semitic
fam4	Central Semitic
fam5	North Arabian?
fam6	Old Arabic
script	Monumental South Arabian script
isoexception	dialect
glotto	hasa1249
glottorefname	Hasaitic
linglist	xna-has
image	Tablet_in_Qatif,_Saudi_Arabia_013.png
imagecaption	Ancient funerary inscription tablet written in Hasaitic, 5th-6th century CE. Tarout Island, Saudi Arabia.
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| name = Hasaitic | altname = Hasaean | region = Arabia | extinct = marginalized by Classical Arabic from the 7th century | ref = | familycolor = Afro-Asiatic | fam2 = Semitic | fam3 = West Semitic | fam4 = Central Semitic | fam5 = North Arabian? | fam6 = Old Arabic | script = Monumental South Arabian script | isoexception = dialect | glotto = hasa1249 | glottorefname = Hasaitic | linglist = xna-has | image = Tablet_in_Qatif,_Saudi_Arabia_013.png | imagecaption = Ancient funerary inscription tablet written in Hasaitic, 5th-6th century CE. Tarout Island, Saudi Arabia.

Hasaitic is an Ancient North Arabian dialect attested in inscriptions in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia at Thaj, Hinna, Qatif, Ras Tanura, Abqaiq in the al-Hasa region, Ayn Jawan, Mileiha and at Uruk.William Facey, The Story of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, 1994, It is written in the Monumental South Arabian script and dates from the 5th to 2nd centuries BC.

Notes

References

1. "Pre-Islamic North and East Arabian". [[Linguist List.
2. "SHI 28 {{!}} OCIANA".
3. Cornwall, P. B.. (1946). "Ancient Arabia: Explorations in Hasa, 1940-41". The Geographical Journal.
4. Højlund, Flemming. (2021). "Two inscribed wine amphoras from Thāj, Saudi Arabia". Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy.
5. Macdonald, M. C. A.. (2000). "Reflections on the linguistic map of pre-Islamic Arabia".

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