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Many scripts in Unicode, such as Arabic, have special orthographic rules that require certain combinations of letterforms to be combined into special ligature forms.In English, the common ampersand (&) developed from a ligature in which the handwritten Latin letters e and t (spelling et, Latin for and) were combined. [1]
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.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Arabic on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Arabic in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Berber languages have often been written in an adaptation of the Arabic alphabet. The use of the Arabic alphabet, as well as the competing Latin and Tifinagh scripts, has political connotations; Tuareg language, (sometimes called Tamasheq) which is also a Berber language; Coptic language of Egyptians as Coptic text written in Arabic letters [25]
Unicode collation charts—including Arabic letters, sorted by shape; Why the right side of your brain doesn't like Arabic; Arabic fonts by SIL's Non-Roman Script Initiative; Alexis Neme and Sébastien Paumier (2019), "Restoring Arabic vowels through omission-tolerant dictionary lookup", Lang Resources & Evaluation, Vol. 53, pp. 1–65.
The Arabic keyboard (Arabic: لوحة المفاتيح العربية, romanized: lawḥat al-mafātīḥ al-ʕarabiyya) is the Arabic keyboard layout used for the Arabic alphabet. All computer Arabic keyboards contain both Arabic letters and Latin letters , the latter being necessary for URLs and e-mail addresses .
Text of ISO 10646 – AMD 18 for PDAM registration and FPDAM ballot, 1997-12-22: L2/98-318: N1894: Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 18, AMENDMENT 18: Symbols and Others, 1998-10-22: L2/20-288: Evans, Lorna Priest (2020-12-07), "U+06FE ARABIC SIGN SINDHI POSTPOSITION MEN", Request for annotations for Sindhi and Behdini Kurdish: L2/21-016R
The literal meaning of تَشْكِيل tashkīl is 'variation'. As the normal Arabic text does not provide enough information about the correct pronunciation, the main purpose of tashkīl (and ḥarakāt) is to provide a phonetic guide or a phonetic aid; i.e. show the correct pronunciation for children who are learning to read or foreign learners.