Sabaean alphabet

Origin

The Sabaean or Sabaic alphabet is one of the south Arabian alphabets.
The oldest known inscriptions in this alphabet date from about 500 BC.
Its origins are not known, though one theory is that it developed from
the Byblos alphabet. The Sabaean alphabet is thought to have evolved
into the Ethiopic script.

Notable features

• The Sabaean alphabet, like Arabic
  and Hebrew, includes
  only consonants. Unlike Arabic and Hebrew, Sabaean has no system
  for vowel indication
• In most inscriptions it is written from right to left, in some it
  is written in boustrophedon style (alternating right to left and left
  to right).

Used to write:

Sabaean, an extinct Semitic language once spoken in
Saba, the biblical Sheba, in southern Arabia.

Sabaean alphabet

Sample text in Sabaean

Source: http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/talengids/english/sabees.htm

Links

Free Sabaean fonts
http://www.ethiosys.com/typography/sabaean.html
http://www.chemie.uni-bremen.de/leibfritz/fonts/