{"title":"Ongunkan South Arabian Script","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eAncient South Arabian script\u003c\/strong\u003e (Old South Arabian 𐩣𐩯𐩬𐩵 \u003cem\u003ems3nd\u003c\/em\u003e; modern \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arabic_language\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eArabic\u003c\/a\u003e: الْمُسْنَد \u003cem\u003emusnad\u003c\/em\u003e) branched from the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proto-Sinaitic_script\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProto-Sinaitic script\u003c\/a\u003e in about the 9th century BCE. It was used for writing the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Old_South_Arabian\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eOld South Arabian\u003c\/a\u003e languages \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sabaean_language\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSabaic\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Qatabanian_language\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eQatabanic\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hadramautic_language\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHadramautic\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minaean_language\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMinaean\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hasaitic_dialect\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHasaitic\u003c\/a\u003e, and the Ethiopic language \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ge%27ez\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGe'ez\u003c\/a\u003e in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/D%CA%BFmt\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDʿmt\u003c\/a\u003e. The earliest inscriptions in the script date to the 9th century BCE in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yemen\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eYemen\u003c\/a\u003e. There are no letters for vowels, which are marked by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matres_lectionis\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ematres lectionis\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts mature form was reached around 800 BCE, and its use continued until the 6th century CE, including \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ancient_North_Arabian\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAncient North Arabian\u003c\/a\u003e inscriptions in variants of the alphabet, when it was displaced by the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arabic_alphabet\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eArabic alphabet\u003c\/a\u003e In Ethiopia and Eritrea, it evolved later into the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ge%27ez_script\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGe'ez script\u003c\/a\u003e, which, with added symbols throughout the centuries, has been used to write \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amharic\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmharic\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tigrinya_language\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTigrinya\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tigre_language\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTigre\u003c\/a\u003e, as well as other languages (including various \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Semitic_languages\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSemitic\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cushitic_languages\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCushitic\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nilo-Saharan_languages\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eNilo-Saharan languages\u003c\/a\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/www.myfonts.com\/collections\/ongunkan-south-arabian-script-font-runic-world-tamgac.oembed","provider":"MyFonts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}