page_title: Nabataean Aramaic
hierarchical_section_title: Nabataean Aramaic
caption_attribution_description: Fragment from a dedicatory inscription in Nabataean script to the god Qasiu. Basalt, 1st century AD. Found in Sia in the Hauran, Southern Syria.
context_page_description: Nabataean Aramaic was the Western Aramaic variety used in inscriptions by the Nabataeans of the Negev, the east bank of the Jordan River and the Sinai Peninsula.
  During the early Islamic Golden Age, Arab historians applied the term "Nabataean" to other, eastern Aramaic languages in the Babylonian alluvial plain of Iraq and the Syrian Desert.
context_section_description: Nabataean Aramaic was the Western Aramaic variety used in inscriptions by the Nabataeans of the Negev, the east bank of the Jordan River and the Sinai Peninsula.
  During the early Islamic Golden Age, Arab historians applied the term "Nabataean" to other, eastern Aramaic languages in the Babylonian alluvial plain of Iraq and the Syrian Desert.
caption: Fragment from a dedicatory inscription in Nabataean script to the god Qasiu.[1]
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