Old Hijazi Arabic

Old Hejazi Arabic
Qurayshi Arabic
Birmingham Quran manuscript
Region	Hejaz (Saudi Arabia)
Era	1st century to 7th century
Language family	Afroasiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic North Arabian? Arabic Old Arabic Old Hejazi Arabic
Writing system	Dadanitic, Arabic, Greek
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None

Old Hijazi, is a variety of Old Arabic attested in Hejaz (the western part of Saudi Arabia) from about the 1st century to the 7th century. It is the variety thought to underlie the Quranic Consonantal Text (QCT) and in its later iteration was the prestige spoken and written register of Arabic in the Umayyad Caliphate.