Thamudic

Target entity: Thamudic
Context triple: [Al-Hijr (Madain Salih), inscriptionsLanguage, Thamudic]

• A. Elamite
  Elamite is an ancient language of southwestern Iran, historically used in the kingdom of Elam and later as an administrative language under the Achaemenid Empire.
• B. Safaitic Arabic
  Safaitic Arabic is an ancient North Arabian dialect known from inscriptions left by nomadic tribes in the southern Syrian and northern Arabian deserts during the first centuries CE.
• C. Nabataean alphabet
  The Nabataean alphabet is an ancient Northwest Semitic script used by the Nabataean kingdom, which evolved from the Phoenician writing system and later gave rise to the early Arabic script.
• D. Middle Sabaic
  Middle Sabaic is a historical dialect of the Sabaic language used in ancient South Arabia, particularly associated with the later phases of the Sabaean kingdom’s written tradition.
• E. Mandaic alphabet
  The Mandaic alphabet is a distinctive script used primarily by the Mandaean religious community to write the Mandaic language, a dialect of Eastern Aramaic.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Thamudic
Target entity description: Thamudic is an ancient North Arabian script and group of related dialects used by pre-Islamic tribes in the northwestern Arabian Peninsula.

• A. Elamite
  Elamite is an ancient language of southwestern Iran, historically used in the kingdom of Elam and later as an administrative language under the Achaemenid Empire.
• B. Safaitic Arabic
  Safaitic Arabic is an ancient North Arabian dialect known from inscriptions left by nomadic tribes in the southern Syrian and northern Arabian deserts during the first centuries CE.
• C. Nabataean alphabet
  The Nabataean alphabet is an ancient Northwest Semitic script used by the Nabataean kingdom, which evolved from the Phoenician writing system and later gave rise to the early Arabic script.
• D. Middle Sabaic
  Middle Sabaic is a historical dialect of the Sabaic language used in ancient South Arabia, particularly associated with the later phases of the Sabaean kingdom’s written tradition.
• E. Mandaic alphabet
  The Mandaic alphabet is a distinctive script used primarily by the Mandaean religious community to write the Mandaic language, a dialect of Eastern Aramaic.
• F. None of above. chosen