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as the sole official script. as a co-official script. The Arabic alphabet, [a] or the Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right-to-left in a cursive style, and includes 28 letters, of which most have contextual letterforms. The Arabic alphabet is considered an abjad ...
Arabic keyboard. The Arabic keyboard (Arabic: لوحة المفاتيح العربية, romanized: lawḥat al-mafātīḥ al-ʕarabiyya) is the Arabic keyboard layout used for the Arabic alphabet. All computer Arabic keyboards contain both Arabic letters and Latin letters, the latter being necessary for URLs and e-mail addresses. Since Arabic ...
Contents. Template:Arabic alphabet shapes. This template generates a table showing the shaping of an Arabic character. It avoids using any Arabic Unicode compatibility characters for forcing their variant forms, because these characters are incomplete for full coverage of the Arabic script, and because their usage (for forced shaping) is ...
Origins. The Arabic alphabet evolved either from the Nabataean, [1][2] or (less widely believed) directly from the Syriac. [3] The table below shows changes undergone by the shapes of the letters from the Aramaic original to the Nabataean and Syriac forms. The Arabic script shown is that of post-Classical and Modern Arabic—notably different ...
Romanization is often termed "transliteration", but this is not technically correct. [1] Transliteration is the direct representation of foreign letters using Latin symbols, while most systems for romanizing Arabic are actually transcription systems, which represent the sound of the language, since short vowels and geminate consonants, for example, do not usually appear in Arabic writing.
Contents. Template:Arabic alphabet shapes/doc. This template generates a table showing the shaping of an Arabic character. It avoids using any Arabic Unicode compatibility characters for forcing their variant forms, because these characters are incomplete for full coverage of the Arabic script, and because their usage (for forced shaping) is ...
Arabic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting and calligraphy based on the Arabic alphabet. It is known in Arabic as khatt (Arabic: خَطّ), derived from the words 'line', 'design', or 'construction'. [1][2] Kufic is the oldest form of the Arabic script. From an artistic point of view, Arabic calligraphy has been known and ...
This template acts is a wrapper for Template:Arabic alphabet shapes and Template:Arabic alphabet Nastaliq shapes, showing both the Naskh and Nastaʿlīq script glyph forms. The template documentation for Template:Arabic alphabet shapes follows. This template generates a table showing the shaping of an Arabic character.