Tags: Language.
The Nabataean language was a western Aramaic and was the language of the Nabataeans of the Negev east bank of the Jordan and the Sinai Peninsula.During the early Islamic era some Arab historians applied this terms collectively to other eastern Aramaic languages in the Babylonian alluvial plain of Iraq and the Syrian Desert. These areas became Arabized during the Caliphate and partly before in some areas.
