Ancient South Arabian script

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Ancient South Arabian script

Script type	Abjad
Time period	c. 9th century BCE to 6th century CE
Direction	right-to-left script
Languages	Ge'ez, Old South Arabian
Related scripts
Parent systems	Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic Ancient South Arabian script
Child systems	Ge'ez^[1]^[2]
Sister systems	Phoenician alphabet
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Sarb, 105 , Old South Arabian
Unicode
Unicode alias	Old South Arabian
Unicode range	U+10A60–U+10A7F
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South Arabian inscription addressed to the Sabaean national god Almaqah

History of the alphabet

Egyptian hieroglyphs 32nd c. BCE

Hieratic 32nd c. BCE
- Demotic 7th c. BCE
  - Meroitic 3rd c. BCE
Proto-Sinaitic 19th c. BCE
- Ugaritic 15th c. BCE
- Epigraphic South Arabian 9th c. BCE
  - Geʽez 5–6th c. BCE
- Phoenician 12th c. BCE
  - Paleo-Hebrew 10th c. BCE
    - Samaritan 6th c. BCE
  - Aramaic 8th c. BCE
    - Kharosthi 3rd c. BCE
    - Brahmi 3rd c. BCE
      - Brahmic family (see)
        E.g. Tibetan 7th c. CE
        
        Devanagari 10th c. CE
        Canadian syllabics 1840
    - Hebrew 3rd c. BCE
      - Square Aramaic Alphabet 2007
    - Pahlavi 3rd c. BCE
      - Avestan 4th c. CE
    - Palmyrene 2nd c. BCE
    - Nabataean 2nd c. BCE
      - Arabic 4th c. CE
        N'Ko 1949 CE
    - Syriac 2nd c. BCE
      - Sogdian 2nd c. BCE
        Orkhon (old Turkic) 6th c. CE
        Old Hungarian c. 650 CE
        
        Old Uyghur
        Mongolian 1204 CE
    - Mandaic 2nd c. CE
  - Greek 8th c. BCE
    - Etruscan 8th c. BCE
      - Latin 7th c. BCE
        Cherokee (syllabary; letter forms only) c. 1820 CE
        Vai (syllabary) c. 1832 CE
        
        Deseret 1854 CE
        
        Osage 2006 CE
      - Runic 2nd c. CE
      - Ogham (origin uncertain) 4th c. CE
    - Coptic 3rd c. CE
    - Gothic 3rd c. CE
    - Armenian 405 CE
    - Caucasian Albanian (origin uncertain) c. 420 CE
    - Georgian (origin uncertain) c. 430 CE
    - Glagolitic 862 CE
    - Cyrillic c. 940 CE
      - Old Permic 1372 CE
  - Paleohispanic (semi-syllabic) 7th c. BCE
  - Libyco-Berber 3rd c. BCE
    - Tifinagh

Adlam (slight influence from Arabic) 1989 CE

Hangul 1443 CE

Thaana c. 18 CE (derived from Brahmi numerals)

The Ancient South Arabian script (Old South Arabian