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Old South Arabian المُسند is an antique script, which the modern [BLOCK:ethiopic Ethiopic writing] stems from.
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The ancient Yemeni alphabet (Old South Arabian ms3nd; modern Arabic: المُسنَد musnad) branched from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet in about the 9th century BC. It was used for writing the Old South Arabian languages of the [b]Sabaic, Qatabanic, Hadramautic, Minaic (or Madhabic), Himyaritic, and proto-Ge'ez[/b] (or proto-Ethiosemitic). The earliest inscriptions in the alphabet date back to the 9th century BC (Akkele Guzay, Eritrea) and the 10th century BC (Yemen).
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Old South Arabian had reached its mature form around 500 BC. Its use continued afterwards till the 6th century AC, including [BLOCK:old-north-arabian Old North Arabian] inscriptions, but it was displaced by the [BLOCK:arabic Arabic alphabet]. In Ethiopia and Eritrea it evolved into the [BLOCK:ethiopic-extended Ge'ez alphabet] with added symbols throughout the centuries. It has been used to write Amharic, Tigrinya and Tigre, as well as other languages (including various Semitic, Cushitic, and Nilo-Saharan languages). |