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Front Matter
Old South Arabian
Script of the Sabaean kingdom in modern Yemen, whose ruler is believed to be the Queen of Sheba of the Old Testament.
Script of the Sabaean kingdom in modern Yemen, whose ruler is believed to be the Queen of Sheba of the Old Testament. The direct ancestor of Ethiopic script, South Arabian inscriptions span 1,500 years from the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD.
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The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Unicode
Range 1U+10A60–U+10A9F
Total signs32
Unicode Blocks
Not in Unicode
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Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Right to Left (RTL)
오른쪽에서 왼쪽, 또는 쌍방향(牛耕式)으로 표기.
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System
Abjad
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Descendants of hieroglyphs
Phylogeny
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