Back Arabiese alfabet Afrikaans Arabisches Alphabet ALS የዓረብኛ አልፋቤት Amharic Alfabeto arabe AN أبجدية عربية Arabic ܐܠܦܒܝܬ ܥܪܒܝܐ ARC حروف عربى ARZ Alfabetu árabe AST ГӀараб алипба AV Ərəb əlifbası Azerbaijani
| Arabic alphabet | |
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| Script type | |
Time period | 3rd century CE – present[1] |
| Direction | Right-to-left script  |
| Languages | Arabic |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | |
| ISO 15924 | |
| ISO 15924 | Arab (160), Arabic |
| Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Arabic |
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Arabic script |
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,[b] of which most have contextual letterforms. Unlike the Latin alphabet, the script has no concept of letter case. The Arabic alphabet is considered an abjad, with only consonants required to be written; due to its optional use of diacritics to notate vowels, it is considered an impure abjad.[2]
- ^ Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William, eds. (1996). The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press, Inc. p. 559. ISBN 978-0195079937.
- ^ Zitouni, Imed (2014). Natural Language Processing of Semitic Languages. Springer Science & Business. p. 15. ISBN 978-3642453588.
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