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As an abjad, the Urdu script only shows consonants and long vowels; short vowels can only be inferred by the consonants' relation to each other. While this type of script is convenient in Semitic languages like Arabic and Hebrew, whose consonant roots are the key of the sentence, Urdu is an Indo-European language, which requires more precision ...
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Template intended to force Nastaʿlīq script fonts if installed: "Urdu Typesetting" -- Proprietary Microsoft font that is available on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. IranNastaliq Archived on the Wayback Machine, yjc, parsilatex (rest of the links has become outdated and broken) Nafees Nastaleeq > Pak Nastaleeq ; Noto Nastaliq Urdu
An abjad is a segmental script containing symbols for consonants only, or where vowels are optionally written with diacritics ("pointing") or only written word-initially. Ancient North Arabian – Dadanitic , Dumaitic , Hasaitic , Hismaic , Safaitic , Taymanitic , and Thamudic
Baṛī ye (Urdu: بَڑی يے, Urdu pronunciation: [ˈbəɽiː ˈjeː]; lit. ' greater ye ') is a letter in the Urdu alphabet (and other Indo-Iranian language alphabets based on it) directly based on the alternative "returned" variant of the final form of the Arabic letter ye/yāʾ (known as yāʾ mardūda) found in the Hijazi, Kufic, Thuluth, Naskh, and Nastaliq scripts. [1]
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Hindustani (standardized Hindi and standardized Urdu) has been written in several different scripts. Most Hindi texts are written in the Devanagari script, which is derived from the Brāhmī script of Ancient India. Most Urdu texts are written in the Urdu alphabet, which comes from the Persian alphabet. Hindustani has been written in both scripts.