01OVERVIEW
Front Matter
SCRIPT · PROFILE
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.
04SPECIMEN
The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Unicode
Range 1U+10A60–U+10A9F
Total signs32
Unicode Blocks
Not in Unicode
No Unicode block data available for this script.
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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06MECHANICS
Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Right to Left (RTL)
Right to left, or boustrophedon.
α
System
Abjad
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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07LINEAGE
The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Ancestors & descendants
Phylogeny
08REACH