Old Arabic
| Old Arabic | |
|---|---|
| የበ𐪇Ⲟ اللغة العربية القديمة | |
Epitaph of Imru al-Qays I ibn Amr (328 AD) | |
| Pronunciation | [ʕr͇b] |
| Region | Northwestern Arabian Peninsula and the southern Levant |
| Era | Early 1st millennium BCE to 7th century CE |
Early form | |
| Safaitic Hismaic Dadanitic Nabataean Phoenician Arabic Greek | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
Old Arabic is the name for any Arabic language or dialect continuum before Islam. Various forms of Old Arabic are attested in scripts like Safaitic, Hismaic, Nabatean, and even Greek.
Alternatively, the term has been used synonymously with "Paleo-Arabic" to describe the form of the Arabic script in the fifth and sixth centuries.