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  2. Arabic script - Wikipedia

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    Arwi language (a mixture of Arabic and Tamil) uses the Arabic script together with the addition of 13 letters. It is mainly used in Sri Lanka and the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu for religious purposes. Arwi language is the language of Tamil Muslims. Arabi Malayalam is Malayalam written in the Arabic script.

  3. Arabic typography - Wikipedia

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    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. It lacked expertise in the three core aspects of Arabic writing: calligraphy ...

  4. Romanization of Arabic - Wikipedia

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    The romanization of Arabic is the systematic rendering of written and spoken Arabic in the Latin script. Romanized Arabic is used for various purposes, among them transcription of names and titles, cataloging Arabic language works, language education when used instead of or alongside the Arabic script, and representation of the language in ...

  5. Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic alphabet can be traced back to the Nabataean script used to write Nabataean Aramaic. The first known text in the Arabic alphabet is a late fourth-century inscription from Jabal Ram 50 km east of ‘Aqabah in Jordan, but the first dated one is a trilingual inscription at Zebed in Syria from 512.

  6. Modern Standard Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Current situation. Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the literary standard across the Middle East, North Africa and Horn of Africa, and is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Most printed material in the Arab League —including most books, newspapers, magazines, official documents, and reading primers for small children—is ...

  7. Arabic calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    Arabic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting and calligraphy based on the Arabic alphabet. It is known in Arabic as khatt ( Arabic: خَطّ ), derived from the word 'line', 'design', or 'construction'. [1] [2] Kufic is the oldest form of the Arabic script . From an artistic point of view, Arabic calligraphy has been known and ...

  8. Adobe Photoshop - Wikipedia

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    Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe for Windows and macOS. It was originally created in 1987 by Thomas and John Knoll. Since then, the software has become the most used tool for professional digital art, especially in raster graphics editing. Owing to its fame, the program's name has become genericised ...

  9. Arabic keyboard - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic keyboard ( Arabic: لوحة المفاتيح العربية, lawḥat al-mafātīḥ al-`Arabīyyah) 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. Since Arabic is written from right to ...