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Arabic script is used to write Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Ottoman Turkish, Hausa, Punjabi, Malay, Kurdish, and a wide range of other languages worldwide, by over 600 million people. Observant Muslims can generally read the Arabic script as well. It is one of the most widely used scripts in the world. The Arabic script derives from the ancient Nabatean script, with the Syriac script influencing its development. Both were descendants of the older Aramaic script. Letters of the same word are written flowing into one another in cursive fashion, and can have up to four distinct forms based on word position: isolated, initial, medial and final. Isolated letters do not combine with others.

Diacritics are used to represent short vowels, consonant variation and more. Since the script is used to write a wide range of languages, it includes numerous diacritics, additional letters and even modified letter forms across its linguistic range. Many of these are particular to specific linguistic traditions, and are obscure elsewhere. A range of different writing styles are used, often with variations in cursive flow as well. For example, while text in Naskh has a linear cursive flow, text in Nastaliq gradually descends to the baseline from above.

Script ClassificationAbjad
Letter CaseNone
Commonly Used Quotation Marks«...»
Numerals0–9: ٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩ [Widely used, although regional variations exist]
Earliest Recorded Usagec. 512 CE
Used to WriteArabic, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Ottoman Turkish, Hausa, Punjabi, Malay, Kurdish, etc.
Added to UnicodeVersion 1.0 (1991)
  • Ping Round
    Ping Round18 styles
  • Ping
    Ping18 styles
  • November
    November18 styles
  • October
    October18 styles
  • Nocturno
    Nocturno20 styles
  • Greta Sans
    Greta Sans20 styles
  • Greta Sans Compressed
    Greta Sans Compressed18 styles
  • Greta Sans Condensed
    Greta Sans Condensed20 styles
  • Greta Text
    Greta Text8 styles
  • Fedra Sans Display
    Fedra Sans Display10 styles
  • Fedra Sans Alt
    Fedra Sans Alt10 styles
  • Fedra Serif
    Fedra Serif8 styles
  • Fedra Sans
    Fedra Sans10 styles
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