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{{Infobox language
#REDIRECT [[Ancient North Arabian]]▼
|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]]
|script=[[Ancient North Arabian#Writing system|Ancient North Arabian alphabet]]
|isoexception=dialect
|glotto=hism1236
|glottorefname=Hismaic
}}
'''Hismaic''' is an [[Ancient North Arabian]] dialect attested in inscriptions from pre-Islamic times scattered across the Arabian desert.
==Characteristics==
Transliteration of a Hismaic 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
''Lyly'' is clearly the broken plural of ''layl'' "night", and was probably vocalized ''*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}}
{{Varieties of Arabic}}
[[Category:Arabic languages]]
[[Category:History of Saudi Arabia]]
[[Category:Ancient languages]]
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