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    The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used alphabetic writing...
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  • Many scripts in Unicode, such as Arabic, have special orthographic rules that require certain combinations of letterforms to be combined into special ligature...
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    Nabataean script evolved into the Arabic script recognizable from the early Islamic era. There are inscriptions in an undotted, 17-letter Arabic script dating...
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    known as the Perso-Arabic script, is the right-to-left alphabet used for the Persian language. It is a variation of the Arabic script with five additional...
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    الْعَرَبِيَّة, al-ḥurūf al-ʿarabiyyah), or Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right-to-left...
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    The romanization of Arabic is the systematic rendering of written and spoken Arabic in the Latin script. Romanized Arabic is used for various purposes...
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    The Arabic script has numerous diacritics, which include consonant pointing known as iʻjām (إِعْجَام), and supplementary diacritics known as tashkīl (تَشْكِيل)...
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  • using the script, including Mooré, Pulaar, Wolof, and Yoruba. It is an adaptation of the Arabic script to write sounds not found in Standard Arabic. Rather...
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    languages commonly written in the Latin script. The standard Urdu script is a modified version of the Perso-Arabic script and has its origins in the 13th century...
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    Old Arabic is the name for any Arabic language or dialect continuum before Islam. Various forms of Old Arabic are attested in scripts like Safaitic, Hismaic...
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    (the cursive Arabic handwriting) Nastaliq Arabic, Urdu, other Arabic keyboard layouts National Language Authority Taʿlīq script Arabic: قلم النسخ‎, romanized: qalam...
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    'construction'. Kufic is the oldest form of the Arabic script. From an artistic point of view, Arabic calligraphy has been known and appreciated for its...
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    Minangkabau, Tausūg, and Ternate. Jawi is based on the Arabic script, consisting of all 31 original Arabic letters, six letters constructed to fit phonemes...
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    writing starts from the left of the page and continues to the right. The Arabic script is mostly but not exclusively right-to-left; mathematical expressions...
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    may see unjoined letters or other symbols instead of Uyghur script. The first Perso-Arabic derived alphabet for Uyghur was developed in the 10th century...
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    Kashmiri (English: /kæʃˈmɪəri/) or Koshur (Kashmiri: کٲشُر (Perso-Arabic, Official Script) ; Kashmiri pronunciation: [kəːʃur]) is a Dardic Indo-Aryan language...
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    The Arabic script is generally believed to have evolved from local cursive varieties of the Aramaic script, which have been adopted to write Arabic, though...
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    Kufic (redirect from Kufi Arabic)
    Kufic script (Arabic: الْخط الْكوُفِي; Romanized: ‘Al-khat ‘al-Kūfī) is a style of Arabic script that gained prominence early on as a preferred script for...
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    Ancient South Arabian script (Old South Arabian: 𐩣𐩯𐩬𐩵 ms3nd; modern Arabic: الْمُسْنَد musnad) branched from the Proto-Sinaitic script in about the late...
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    Nastaleeq, is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Perso-Arabic script and it is used for some Indo-Iranian languages, predominantly Classical...
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  • alphabets for informal Arabic dialects in which Arabic script is transcribed or encoded into a combination of Latin script and Arabic numerals. These informal...
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  • Paleo-Arabic (or Palaeo-Arabic, sometimes also referred to as pre-Islamic Arabic or Old Arabic) is a script that represents a pre-Islamic phase in the...
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    The Nabataean script is an abjad (consonantal alphabet) that was used to write Nabataean Aramaic and Nabataean Arabic from the second century BC onwards...
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  • native letters: Unlike the Arabic script, Adlam digits go in the same direction (right to left) as letters, as in the N'Ko script. Adlam punctuation is like...
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  • Syriac forms. The Arabic script shown is that of post-Classical and Modern Arabic—notably different from 6th century Arabic script. (Arabic is placed in the...
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    Judeo-Egyptian Arabic (yhd), and Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic (yud). Judeo-Arabic can also refer to Classical Arabic written in the Hebrew script, particularly...
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  • Arabic script. It began in the 1830s in the madrasa in Cape Town. Beside a 16th-century manuscript in the German language written with Arabic script,...
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  • Thumbnail for Somali alphabets
    century, the Arabic script was used for writing Somali.[citation needed] An extensive literary and administrative corpus exists in Arabic script. It was the...
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    Maghrebi script or Maghribi script (Arabic: الخط المغربي) refers to a loosely related family of Arabic scripts that developed in the Maghreb (North Africa)...
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    Roman numerals. The numbers 1, 2, 3 ... are Latin/Roman script numbers for the Hindu–Arabic numeral system. The use of the letters I and V for both consonants...
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