Script - Old North Arabian

Old North Arabian is a script used in antiquity across the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant, primarily for inscriptions on stone, metal, and pottery, dating from roughly the 8th century BCE to the 6th century CE. It represents a family of related alphabets derived from a common ancestor, with distinct regional variants such as Taymanitic and Dadanitic, and it was used to write early forms of Arabic and other Semitic languages. The script is written right-to-left and features a set of 28 consonantal letters, with some forms showing diacritical marks to distinguish certain sounds. Its Unicode assignment covers the historical glyphs, enabling digital preservation and scholarly study of these ancient texts, which are crucial for understanding pre-Islamic culture and linguistics.