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  2. Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    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, [b] of which most have contextual letterforms. Unlike the Latin alphabet, the script has no concept of letter case.

  3. Arabic script - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic (Arabic alphabet) and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world (after the Latin script ), [ 2 ] the second-most widely used writing system in the world by number of countries using it, and the third-most by number ...

  4. Arabic letter frequency - Wikipedia

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    The ordering of the alphabet shown in the tables is more logical [citation needed] than is used by the Unicode standard. Figure 1: Arabic characters that can be produced using the Arabic Letter Keyboard Intellark. Table 1: The Arabic alphabet. Letters 1 to 28 are the primary letters. Letters 29 to 36 are the modified letters.

  5. Ḫāʾ - Wikipedia

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    Ḫāʾ, Khāʾ, or Xe (خ, transliterated as ḫ , ḵ , kh or ẖ ) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being ṯāʼ, ḏāl, ḍād, ẓāʼ, ġayn). It is based on the ḥāʾ ح.

  6. Ḏāl - Wikipedia

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    The main pronunciations of written ذ in Arabic dialects. Ḏāl (ذ, also transcribed as dhāl) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being ṯāʾ, ḫāʾ, ḍād, ẓāʾ, ġayn). In Modern Standard Arabic it represents /ð/.

  7. History of the Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The first known recorded text in the Arabic alphabet is known as the Zabad inscription, composed in 512. It is a trilingual dedication in Greek, Syriac and Arabic found at the village of Zabad in northwestern Syria. The version of the Arabic alphabet used includes only 21 letters, of which only 15 are different, being used to note 28 phonemes:

  8. Bet (letter) - Wikipedia

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    Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic bāʾ ب ‎, Aramaic bēṯ 𐡁, Hebrew bēt ב ‎, Phoenician bēt 𐤁, and Syriac bēṯ ܒ. . Its sound value is the voiced bilabial stop b or the voiced labiodental fricative v

  9. Ghayn - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic letter غ ‎ (Arabic: غَيْنْ, ghayn or ġayn /ɣajn/) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being thāʼ, khāʼ, dhāl, ḍād, ẓāʼ). It represents the sound /ɣ/ or /ʁ/. In name and shape, it is a variant of ʻayn (ع ‎).