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To view the root records in this website correctly, you'll need to download a font for the Musnad script, either the Qatabanic font or Sabaic font, if you have an older operating system and can't see this text properly: 𐩣𐩯𐩬𐩵.

Depending on your Operating system, you may also need to download fonts for other scripts as well. Linux users should be able to view all scripts, Windows and Mac users will need to download various fonts.

Old North Arabian (Dadanitic)

Google has fonts available for most ancient scripts, this is for Old North Arabian (Dadanitic) which Windows & Mac users still don't have a font for, but it's included in most Linux systems

Old North Arabian (Safaitic)

This font was generated from the Unicode specifciation document for the proposal to encode Old North Arabian created by Michael Everson

Old North Arabian (Taymanitic)

This font was generated from the Unicode specifciation document for the proposal to encode Old North Arabian created by Michael Everson

Books


General

A Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages (O'Leary, De Lacy)

This book is a little dated, and was written before the discovery of Ugaritic but it is still a very good primer on the grammar of the Semitic languages.

  • Published: 1923
  • Download: Click (pdf)
  • Filesize: 10.7 MB

Ancient Semitic Civilizations (Moscati, Sabatino)

A great introduction to the civilisations that spawned the Semitic languages.

  • Published: 1957
  • Download: Click (pdf)
  • Filesize: 23.7 MB

Semitic Inscriptions (Littman, Enno)

A great introduction to some of the inscriptions of the ancient Semitic languages.

  • Published: 1904
  • Download: Click (pdf)
  • Filesize: 15.7 MB

A Textbook of North-Semitic Inscriptions (Cooke)

A great introduction to some of the inscriptions of the north west Semitic languages.

  • Published: 1903
  • Download: Click (pdf)
  • Filesize: 22.9 MB

Ancient South Arabian

Sabaic Dictionary (Beeston)

Reference lexicon for the Sabaic language.

  • Published: 1982
  • Download: Click (pdf)
  • Filesize: 9.2 MB

Sabaic Grammar (Beeston)

Basic grammar for the Sabaic language.

  • Published: 1984
  • Download: Click (pdf)
  • Filesize: 5.9 MB

Ethiopic

Comparative Dictionary of Ge'ez (Leslau)

Reference lexicon for the Ge'ez language.

  • Published: 1987
  • Download: Click (pdf)
  • Filesize: 148.5 MB

Introduction to Classical Ethiopic (Lambdin)

Grammar for the Ge'ez language.

  • Published: 1978
  • Download: Click (pdf)
  • Filesize: 34.1 MB