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  2. Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of Arabic letter components - Wikipedia

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    "Arabic" = Letters used in Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, and most regional dialects. "Farsi" = Letters used in modern Persian. FW = Foreign words: the letter is sometimes used to spell foreign words. SV = Stylistic variant: the letter is used interchangeably with at least one other letter depending on the calligraphic style.

  4. Arabic script - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic script, also called as the Perso-Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic ... Hebrew was written in Arabic letters in a number of places in the ...

  5. History of the Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    When a letter was at the end of a word, it often developed an end loop, and as a result most Arabic letters have two or more shapes, so for example n ن and y ي have different shapes at the end of the words ( ـي , ـن ) but they have the same linked initial and medial shapes ( يـ , نـ ) as b, t, and ṯ ( بـ , تـ and ثـ ), the ...

  6. Ghayn - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic letter غ ‎ (Arabic: غَيْنْ, ghayn or ġayn /ɣajn/) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being thāʼ, khāʼ, dhāl, ḍād, ẓāʼ). It represents the sound /ɣ/ or /ʁ/. In name and shape, it is a variant of ʻayn (ع ‎).

  7. Category:Arabic letters - Wikipedia

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    Templates which allow Arabic letters, or combinations thereof, to be inserted. Do not transclude, should always be SUBSTituted. Subcategories.

  8. Arabic typography - Wikipedia

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    Arabic typography is the typography of letters, graphemes, ... A font with tendency towards right angles is also called 'angled', [4] ...

  9. Arabic script in Unicode - Wikipedia

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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]