Arabic alphabet

E38326

abjad writing system

The Arabic alphabet is a cursive, right-to-left abjad script used across the Arab world and adapted for many other languages, including Persian, Urdu, and Pashto.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
Arabic script	186
Arabic alphabet canonical	12
Classical Arabic script	1
Ottoman Turkish alphabet	1
Urdu alphabet	1
الأبجدية العربية	1

Statements (91)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	abjad ⓘ writing system ⓘ
associatedWithReligion	Islam ⓘ
derivedFrom	Nabataean alphabet ⓘ
hasAdditionalLettersForPersian	4 ⓘ
hasAdditionalLettersForUrdu	several additional letters ⓘ
hasContextualLetterForms	yes ⓘ
hasCoreLetters	28 ⓘ
hasDiacritics	shadda ⓘ short vowel marks ⓘ sukun ⓘ tanwin ⓘ
hasFinalForm	yes ⓘ
hasInitialForm	yes ⓘ
hasIsolatedForm	yes ⓘ
hasLetter	alif ⓘ baʼ ⓘ dal ⓘ dhal ⓘ faʼ ⓘ ghayn ⓘ haʼ ⓘ jim ⓘ kaf ⓘ khaʼ ⓘ lam ⓘ mim ⓘ nun ⓘ qaf ⓘ raʼ ⓘ shin ⓘ sin ⓘ taʼ ⓘ thaʼ ⓘ waw ⓘ yaʼ ⓘ zay ⓘ ʿayn ⓘ ḍad ⓘ ḥaʼ ⓘ ṣad ⓘ ṭaʼ ⓘ ẓaʼ ⓘ
hasLetterCount	28 basic letters ⓘ
hasLigature	lam-alif ⓘ
hasMedialForm	yes ⓘ
hasTransliterationSystems	multiple Latin-based systems ⓘ
hasUppercaseLowercaseDistinction	no ⓘ
ISO15924Code	Arab ⓘ
primaryUse	writing the Arabic language ⓘ
religiousUse	Islamic calligraphy ⓘ writing the Quran ⓘ
scriptType	cursive ⓘ
standardizationBody	Academy of the Arabic Language (various national academies) ⓘ
ultimatelyDerivedFrom	Aramaic alphabet (historically) ⓘ surface form: Aramaic alphabet
unicodeBlock	Arabic ⓘ Arabic Extended-A ⓘ Arabic Extended-B ⓘ Arabic Supplement ⓘ
usedFor	Arabic ⓘ surface form: Arabic language Balochi ⓘ surface form: Baluchi language Berber languages (Ajami) ⓘ Fula language ⓘ surface form: Fulani language (Ajami) Hausa ⓘ surface form: Hausa language (Ajami) Jawi script ⓘ Kashmiri language ⓘ Kurdish language ⓘ Malay language ⓘ Malayalam ⓘ surface form: Malayalam language (Arabi-Malayalam) Mande languages ⓘ surface form: Mandinka language (Ajami) Ottoman Turkish ⓘ surface form: Ottoman Turkish language Pashto language ⓘ Persian language ⓘ Shahmukhi script ⓘ surface form: Punjabi language (Shahmukhi) Saraiki ⓘ surface form: Saraiki language Sindhi ⓘ surface form: Sindhi language Swahili language (Ajami) ⓘ Urdu language ⓘ Uyghur Arabic alphabet ⓘ surface form: Uyghur language Wolof ⓘ surface form: Wolof language (Ajami)
usedForNumberSystem	Abjad numerals ⓘ
usedInRegion	Arab world ⓘ Middle East ⓘ North Africa ⓘ parts of Central Asia ⓘ parts of South Asia ⓘ parts of Southeast Asia ⓘ
vowelRepresentation	optional diacritics ⓘ
writingCategory	consonant-based script ⓘ
writingDirection	right-to-left ⓘ
writingSystemFamily	Arabic script ⓘ

Referenced by (202)

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

Urdu language → hasWritingSystemOrigin → Arabic alphabet ⓘ

subject surface form: Urdu

Romani language → writingSystem → Arabic alphabet ⓘ