SABIAN ALPHABET IN LIGHT OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES

Abstract

The aim of this study is to compare the writing system of the Sabaean language with that of formal Arabic and fluent Northern languages such as Thamudic, Safaitic, Lihyanite, etc.
The agreement of the Sabaean and the formal Arabic languages also appears in the number of sounds: which is twenty-eight sounds in Northern Arabic and twenty-nine in Sabaean (Old Southern Arabic) with the Addition of s³, which is an additional form that reflects a sound between s¹ and s² (shin) and is called (sein) with a special symbol added to it.
This number is not more than twenty-two in Canaanites, Aramaic, and Hebrew, and nineteen sound in Akkadian, and so on.
And there was also a talk about the Semitic language, its name, the Sami, their origins, the Sabaean dialect, the location among its Old Southern Arab group, and taking the old South Arabia script (Musnad) in its writings.