enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet

    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 ...

  3. History of the Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Arabic_alphabet

    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 ...

  4. Jawi script - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawi_script

    Jawi (جاوي‎; Acehnese: Jawoë; Kelantan-Pattani: Yawi; Malay pronunciation: [d͡ʒä.wi]) is a writing system used for writing several languages of Southeast Asia, such as Acehnese, Magindanawn, Malay, Mëranaw, Minangkabau, Tausūg, and Ternate. Jawi is based on the Arabic script, consisting of all 31 original Arabic letters, six letters ...

  5. Abjad numerals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjad_numerals

    The Abjad numerals are a decimal numeral system in which the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet are assigned numerical values. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

  6. Ottoman Turkish alphabet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Turkish_alphabet

    The Ottoman Turkish alphabet (Ottoman Turkish: الفبا, romanized: elifbâ) is a version of the Perso-Arabic script used to write Ottoman Turkish until 1928, when it was replaced by the Latin-based modern Turkish alphabet. Though Ottoman Turkish was primarily written in this script, non-Muslim Ottoman subjects sometimes wrote it in other ...

  7. List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters

    As of Unicode version 16.0, there are 155,063 characters with code points, covering 168 modern and historical scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets.This article includes the 1,062 characters in the Multilingual European Character Set 2 subset, and some additional related characters.

  8. Hurufiyya movement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurufiyya_movement

    Hurufiyya movement. The Hurufiyya movement ( Arabic: حروفية ḥurūfiyyah adjectival form ḥurūfī, 'of letters' (of the alphabet) is an aesthetic movement that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century amongst artists from Muslim countries, who used their understanding of traditional Islamic calligraphy within the precepts of ...

  9. Muqattaʿat - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muqattaʿat

    Muqattaʿat. The mysterious letters[1] (muqaṭṭaʿāt, Arabic: حُرُوف مُقَطَّعَات ḥurūf muqaṭṭaʿāt, "disjoined letters" or "disconnected letters" [2]) are combinations of between one and five Arabic letters that appear at the beginning of 29 out of the 114 chapters (surahs) of the Quran just after the Bismillāh ...