Kazakh Arabic alphabet

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The Kazakh Arabic alphabet is a modified version of the Arabic script historically used to write the Kazakh language, particularly before the adoption of Cyrillic and Latin-based alphabets.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Kazakh Arabic alphabet canonical 3

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf abjad
alphabet
writing system
adaptedFor Kazakh phonology
associatedWith Islamic education
Kazakh literature (pre-Soviet)
changeReason language policy reforms in the Soviet Union
modernization and secularization policies
characterSetOrigin Arabic letters
culturalRole symbol of traditional Kazakh literacy
derivedFrom Arabic alphabet
surface form: Arabic script
digitalEncoding represented using Arabic Unicode code points
direction right-to-left
historicalPeriod early Soviet era
pre-Soviet era
includesAdditionalLettersFor Kazakh consonants
Kazakh vowels
influencedBy Ottoman Turkish Arabic script practices
Persian script conventions
languageType Turkic language
orthographicType modified Arabic orthography
predecessorOf Kazakh Latin alphabet
surface form: early Kazakh Latin alphabet
region Central Asia
Kazakhstan
replacedBy Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet
Latin script (1929–1940)
surface form: Kazakh Latin alphabet (1920s–1940)}
scriptCategory Arabic-derived Central Asian scripts
scriptFamily Arabic alphabet
surface form: Arabic script
scriptType consonant-based script
standardizedIn early 20th century
stillUsedBy some Kazakh communities in China
some religious communities
usageStatus historical
usedBefore modern Latin-based Kazakh alphabet reforms
widespread adoption of Cyrillic for Kazakh
usedBy Kazakhs
surface form: Kazakh people
usedFor administrative documents
poetry
religious texts
usedIn Kazakh Khanate
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
vowelRepresentation partly diacritic-based
partly with additional letters
writingDirection horizontal
writingSystemFor Kazakh language

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kazakh language writingSystem Kazakh Arabic alphabet
Kazakh Latin alphabet replaces Kazakh Arabic alphabet