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The Arabic script, also called the Perso-Arabic script [a] (in Persian: دبیره پارسی-عربی) is the writing system used for Arabic (Arabic alphabet) and several other languages of Asia and Africa.
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 modern Latin alphabet, the script has no concept of letter case.
The Nabataean alphabet was designed to write 22 phonemes, but Arabic has 28 consonant phonemes; thus, when used to write the Arabic language, 6 of its letters must each represent two phonemes: t ت also represented ṯ ث . ħ ح also represented ḵ خ , d د also represented ḏ ذ , ṣ ص also represented ḍ ض ,
Arabic script is the most widespread RTL writing system in modern times, being used as an official script in 29 sovereign states. Hebrew and Thaana scripts are other RTL writing systems that are official in Israel and the Maldives respectively. Ancient Chinese was written top to bottom, right to left
Arabic typography is the typography of letters, graphemes, characters or text in Arabic script, for example for writing Arabic, Persian, or Urdu. 16th century Arabic typography was a by-product of Latin typography with Syriac and Latin proportions and aesthetics.
Arabic literature (Arabic: الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: al-Adab al-‘Arabī) is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is Adab , which comes from a meaning of etiquette , and which implies politeness, culture and enrichment.
Classical Arabic or Quranic Arabic (Arabic: العربية الفصحى, romanized: al-ʻArabīyah al-Fuṣḥā, lit. 'the most eloquent classic Arabic') is the standardized literary form of Arabic used from the 7th century and throughout the Middle Ages, most notably in Umayyad and Abbasid literary texts such as poetry, elevated prose and oratory, and is also the liturgical language of Islam.
Al-ʻArabiyya, meaning "Arabic": an example of the Arabic script, which is an impure abjad. Impure abjads have characters for some vowels, optional vowel diacritics, or both. The term pure abjad refers to scripts entirely lacking in vowel indicators. [12]