Readings in Early Arabic #8: Six Pre-Islamic Inscriptions

Me reading six Old Arabic inscriptions with reconstructed vocalization, and translations of same, including a verse-rendering of the “Baal and Mot“ fragment, the oldest Arabic poetic text yet discovered. All are in the Safaitic script, except for “Baal and Mot“ which is in something weirder and possibly much older. I include transcriptions in the Arabian Musnad, as the glyph-shapes used for Safaitic are not yet available in any font. If you liked this video, and want to help me make more things like it, in which I read texts in dead accents and languages, go ahead and make a pledge at my patreon: There you’ll be able to access cool subscriber-only stuff including my weekly readings of Shakespeare’s Sonnets and the King James Bible in various 17th century accents. Also you’ll be able to see my recordings several days (sometimes a month or more) before I make them available to the public.