Safaitic's the name given to an Old North Arabian dialect, preserved in the form of inscriptions which are written in a type of South Semitic script. These inscriptions were written by bedouin and semi-nomadic inhabitants of the Syro-Arabian desert. Dating of the inscriptions, although problematic,'s conventionally placed between the 1st century BC and the 4th century AD. Distribution Safaitic inscriptions are named after the area where they were first discovered in 1857: Es Safa, a region of b… (More on Safaitic)