|fam5=#REDIRECT [[ OldAncient North Arabian]] ▼{{Infobox language
|name=Hismaic
|region=[[Arabia]]
|extinct=marginalized by [[Classical Arabic]] from the 7th century
|ref={{citation needed|date=July 2014}}
|familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
|fam2=[[Semitic languages|Semitic]]
|fam3=[[Central Semitic languages|Central]]
|fam4=[[Arabic languages|Arabic]]
▲|fam5=[[Old North Arabian]]
|script=[[Ancient North Arabian#Writing system|Ancient North Arabian alphabet]]
|isoexception=dialect
|linglist=xna-tha
|lingname=(omitted)
|glotto=none
}}
'''Hismaic''' is an [[Ancient North Arabian]] dialect attested in inscriptions from pre-Islamic times scattered across the Arabian desert.
==Characteristics==
An example of Hismaic from An Ancient Arabic inscription:
wa-lahū ih̠tilāfu l-layli wan-nahāri
and his is the alternation of night and day
wa huwa llaḏī ǧaʿala l-lyly wan-nahāra h̠ilfatan
and he is the one who made night and day to follow one another
Note that term lyly is clearly the broken plural of layl ‘night’, and should probably be vocalized as /*layālay/, corresponding to Classical Arabic layālin.<ref>http://www.academia.edu/16094901/Echoes_of_the_Baal_Cycle_in_a_Safaito-Hismaic_Inscription</ref>
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
{{Varieties of Arabic}}
[[Category:Arabic languages]]
[[Category:History of Saudi Arabia]]
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