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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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    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 rules governing ligature formation in Arabic can be quite complex, requiring special script-shaping technologies such as the Arabic Calligraphic Engine by Thomas Milo's DecoType.

  4. Arabic numerals - Wikipedia

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    The list on the right shows the Fibonacci sequence: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377. The 2, 8, and 9 resemble Arabic numerals more than Eastern Arabic numerals or Indian numerals Leonardo Fibonacci was a Pisan mathematician who had studied in the Pisan trading colony of Bugia , in what is now Algeria , [ 15 ] and he endeavored ...

  5. Jawi script - Wikipedia

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    Jawi (جاوي‎; Acehnese: Jawoë; Kelantan-Pattani: Yawi; Malay pronunciation: [d͡ʒä.wi]) is a writing system used for writing several languages of Southeast Asia, such as Acehnese, Magindanawn, Malay, Mëranaw, Minangkabau, Tausūg, and Ternate. Jawi is based on the Arabic script, consisting of all 31 original Arabic letters, six letters ...

  6. List of Arabic star names - Wikipedia

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    Arab-Latinized star name Arabic name (transliteration) Meaning Arabic name Arabic name (vowels) Scientific star name Maasym: al-Miʿasam uth-Thurayyā: the Wrist (of Hercules) معصم الثّريّا Lambda Herculis: Maaz: al-Māʿaz: the he-Goat: المعز Epsilon Aurigae: Mankib: Mankib (ul-Faras) the Shoulder (of the Horse) منكب ...

  7. Indonesian Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Indonesian Arabic (Arabic: العربية الاندونيسية, romanized: al-‘Arabiyya al-Indūnīsiyya, Indonesian: Bahasa Arab Indonesia) is a variety of Arabic spoken in Indonesia. It is primarily spoken by people of Arab descents and by students (santri) who study Arabic at Islamic educational institutions or pesantren. This language ...

  8. Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, al-ʿarabiyyah [al ʕaraˈbijːa] ⓘ or عَرَبِيّ, ʿarabīy [ˈʕarabiː] ⓘ or [ʕaraˈbij]) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. [14] The ISO assigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of ...

  9. Eastern Arabic numerals - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The Eastern Arabic numerals, also called Indo-Arabic numerals, are the symbols used to represent numerical digits in conjunction with the Arabic alphabet in the countries of the Mashriq (the east of the Arab world), the Arabian Peninsula, and its variant in other countries that use the Persian numerals on the Iranian plateau and in Asia.