Evolution of the Arabic alphabet, Musnad, Thamudic, ONA. Writing pads / more
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About Arabic script – the beginning
Arabic script – the beginning is a books & reference app developed by YASS.
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Arabic script – the beginning has been downloaded 3.1 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 78 times.
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Arabic script – the beginning is FREE to download. The APK download size is 30.28 MB. The latest version available is 24.25.07. The last update was on July 20, 2025.
Technical Requirements
The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play June 2024.
Description
Many articles and books repeate the conclusions of western scholars of the nineteenth century, based on a handful of inscriptions, about a Arab Nabataean transformation to Arabic script. Few, like Mādūn, challenged this notion with serious and interesting analysis and reasoning. He speculated with illustrative details about a possible transformation of older Arabic Musnad shapes to modern ones, instead. Today there are many books and articles, disagreeing with the Aramaic Nabataean origin theory without offering a solid alternative theory.
For a long time, theories about early Arabic script (al-Jazm) between Musnad roots and Aramaic scripts were differentiated and differed by Nabataean Arabs. There may have been many Nabataean Aramaic forms included in Jazm, but it is difficult to claim for sure that Jazm was a line of Aramaic based on some of the symbols very similar to the Arabic alphabet, especially since Nabataean Aramaic and Musnad have the roots of a common form of the Sinaitic alphabet. . What we take for researchers is their neglect of the Musnad letters in the Zabur script in their theories.
The application contains many functionalities such as: - A comparative table for some Arab alphabets, with the branching of the Nabataian alphabet from Aramaic and Phoenician. - A chapter to present an idea of the evolution of letters, letter by letter, with information about the Nabataian letter on the one hand and the various Musnadic letters (especially the ONA and Thamudic) on the other hand. - Table of the modern Arabic alphabet, with some details. - Writing and converting texts from Arabic or Latin to the Nabataian, Musnad or North Arab letter, and more. - Writing and converting to grafitti Thamudi, Taymaitic, Thamudic, etc. To learn more you may use our related apps: - Arabic Musnad Alphabet - Arabic Musnad Dictionary (with over 5000 words) - Ancient Arabs (Arabs before Islam).
Recent changes: General technical update to meet new requirement (Android 15, SDK 35.
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