Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Upload file; Special pages; ... Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Urdu letters" The following 36 pages are in ...
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 IranNastaliq Archived on the Wayback Machine, yjc, parsilatex (rest of the links has become outdated and broken) Nafees Nastaleeq 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
The first abjad to gain widespread usage was the Phoenician abjad. Unlike other contemporary scripts, such as cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Phoenician script consisted of only a few dozen symbols. This made the script easy to learn, and seafaring Phoenician merchants took the script throughout the then-known world.
The Tartessian or Southwestern script is typologically intermediate between a pure alphabet and the Paleohispanic full semi-syllabaries. Although the letter used to write a stop consonant was determined by the following vowel, as in a full semi-syllabary, the following vowel was also written, as in an alphabet. Some scholars treat Tartessian as ...
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
Upload file; Special pages; ... Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Urdu script" The following 5 pages are in ...
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]