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Thanks for updating the Nabataean Aramaic article with valuable info.Jadhimah (talk) 07:28, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Your recent deletion is of course correct. This makes clear that it was just undetected vandalism. SamuelTheGhost (talk) 13:48, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Previous editors of that page may not have wanted to be too emphatic about the language written, since the inscriptions started out as Arabic-speakers attempting to write Aramaic, but this became increasingly permeated with Arabic as time went on, until towards the end some inscriptions pretty much gave up the effort or dropped the pretense of Aramaic. AnonMoos (talk) 22:19, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough! These issues are discussed on the pages that Nabataean script links to now, though. I think there should be links to those pages and this seemed like a good place. Benji man (talk) 13:12, 24 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Very sorry for not completing this review, something unexpectedly came up so that I was unable to work on it for the past month. Benji man (talk) 12:25, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you, that's really kind! Much appreciated. Benji man (talk) 19:19, 25 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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