There are two main collating sequences for the Arabic alphabet: The original ’abjadī order (ﺪي ْﺠ َﺑ )أ, used for lettering, derives from the order of the Phoenician alphabet, َ ِ and is therefore similar to the order of other Phoenician-derived alphabets, such as the Hebrew alphabet. Both printed and written Arabic are cursive, with most of the letters within a word directly connected to the adjacent letters. For example, the Arabic letters transliterated as b and t have the same basic shape, but b has one dot below, ب, and t has two dots above, ت. These dots are an integral part of a letter, since they distinguish between letters that represent different sounds. Many letters look similar but are distinguished from one another by dots (’i‘jām) above or below their centralĮn./wiki/Arabic_alphabet 2/20 There are no distinct upper and lower case letter forms. Adaptations of the Arabic script for other languages, such as Persian, Ottoman, Sindhi, Urdu, Malay or Pashto, Arabi Malayalam, have additional letters, shown below. E (//en./w/index.php?title=Template:Arabic_alphabet&action=edit)ġ Consonants 1.1 Alphabetical order 1.2 Letter forms 1.2.1 Table of basic letters 1.2.2 Further notes 1.2.3 Modified letters 1.2.4 Ligatures 1.2.5 Gemination 1.2.6 Nunation 2 Vowels 2.1 Short vowels 2.2 Long vowels 2.3 Diphthongs 2.4 Vowel omission 3 Additional letters 3.1 Regional variations 3.2 Sometimes used for writing names, loanwords and dialects 3.3 Used in languages other than Arabic 4 Numerals 4.1 Letters as numerals 5 History 5.1 Arabic printing presses 6 Computers and the Arabic alphabet 6.1 Unicode 6.2 Keyboards 6.3 Handwriting recognition 7 See also 8 References 9 External links.Note : This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols.
Type Abjad Languages Arabic Time period Parent systemsĤ00 to the present Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician Aramaic Syriac Nabataean Arabic abjad N'Ko alphabetĬhild systems ISO 15924 Direction Unicode alias Unicode range Because letters usually stand for consonants, it is classified as an abjad.
It is written from right to left, in a cursive style, and includes 28 letters. The Arabic alphabet (Arabic: ﱠﺔ ﺑﯿ َﺮ ﱠﺔ ﻋ ﺪﯾ ْﺠ َﺑ أ َ َ ِ ِ ’abjadiyyah ‘arabiyyah) or Arabic abjad is the Arabic script as it is codified for writing the Arabic language.
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