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  2. Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    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, of which most have contextual letterforms. The Arabic alphabet is considered an abjad ...

  3. Arabic script in Unicode - Wikipedia

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    The basic Arabic range encodes the standard letters and diacritics, but does not encode contextual forms (U+0621–U+0652 being directly based on ISO 8859-6); and also includes the most common diacritics and Arabic-Indic digits. The Arabic Supplement range encodes letter variants mostly used for writing African (non-Arabic) languages.

  4. Arabic script - Wikipedia

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    official at a provincial level (China, India, Tanzania) or a recognized second script of the official language (Malaysia, Tajikistan) The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic, ALV and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world (after the Latin script), [ 2 ...

  5. Arabic keyboard - Wikipedia

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    Arabic keyboard. 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. Since Arabic ...

  6. List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

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    95 characters; the 52 alphabet characters belong to the Latin script. The remaining 43 belong to the common script. The 33 characters classified as ASCII Punctuation & Symbols are also sometimes referred to as ASCII special characters. Often only these characters (and not other Unicode punctuation) are what is meant when an organization says a ...

  7. Help:IPA/Arabic - Wikipedia

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    IPA/Arabic. < Help:IPA. 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. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing consensus on the ...

  8. Proto-Sinaitic script - Wikipedia

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    Flinders Petrie, 1906, Researches in Sinai O my god, 「rescue」 [me] 「from」 the interior of the mine. ’l「ḫlṣ」[n]「b」t「k」nqb Text 350 Steliform rock panel column ii, left column gives a picture of the situation of the miners. According to William Albright, in his book "The Proto-Sinaitic Inscriptions And Their Decipherment", the first inscriptions in the category now ...

  9. History of the Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The first known recorded text in the Arabic alphabet is known as the Zabad inscription, composed in 512. It is a trilingual dedication in Greek, Syriac and Arabic found at the village of Zabad in northwestern Syria. The version of the Arabic alphabet used includes only 21 letters, of which only 15 are different, being used to note 28 phonemes: