Perso-Arabic script

E4744
abjad writing system

The Perso-Arabic script is a modified form of the Arabic writing system, expanded with additional letters and conventions to represent the sounds of Persian and several other languages across the Middle East and South Asia.

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All labels observed (23)

Label Occurrences
Perso-Arabic script canonical 103
Persian alphabet 45
Sindhi-Arabic script 4

Statements (66)

Predicate Object
instanceOf abjad ⓘ
writing system ⓘ
adaptedToPhonologyOf Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
Iranian languages ⓘ
Persian ⓘ
basedOn Arabic script ⓘ
dominantStyleForArabicTexts Naskh script ⓘ
surface form: Naskh (when used for Persianate languages)
dominantStyleForPersian Nastaʿlīq ⓘ
hasAdditionalLetters ٹ ⓘ
پ ⓘ
ځ ⓘ
څ ⓘ
چ ⓘ
ڈ ⓘ
ډ ⓘ
ڑ ⓘ
ړ ⓘ
ږ ⓘ
ژ ⓘ
ڤ ⓘ
ڨ ⓘ
گ ⓘ
ں ⓘ
ڼ ⓘ
ے ⓘ
hasContextualLetterForms final ⓘ
initial ⓘ
isolated ⓘ
medial ⓘ
hasCursiveJoining true ⓘ
hasLigatures true ⓘ
hasVariant Pashto alphabet ⓘ
Persian alphabet ⓘ
Shahmukhi script ⓘ
Perso-Arabic script self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Sindhi Arabic script

Urdu alphabet ⓘ
historicalOriginPeriod early Islamic era ⓘ
ISO15924Code Arab ⓘ
primaryUseRegion Afghanistan ⓘ
Central Asia ⓘ
surface form: Central Asia (historically)

Iran ⓘ
Iraq ⓘ
Pakistan ⓘ
parts of India ⓘ
scriptFamily Arabic script family ⓘ
supportsNumeralSystem Eastern Arabic numerals ⓘ
Persian numerals ⓘ
UnicodeScriptName Arabic ⓘ
usedFor Balochi ⓘ
surface form: Balochi language

Kashmiri language ⓘ
Kurdish language ⓘ
Ottoman Turkish ⓘ
surface form: Ottoman Turkish (historically)

Pashto language ⓘ
Persian language ⓘ
Punjabi language ⓘ
surface form: Punjabi language (Shahmukhi)

Saraiki language ⓘ
Sindhi language ⓘ
Urdu language ⓘ
Uyghur language (historically) ⓘ
usedInLiteratureOf Greater Iran ⓘ
surface form: Persianate world
usedInReligiousTextsOf Islamic communities using Persian and Urdu ⓘ
usesDiacriticsFor gemination ⓘ
short vowels ⓘ
vowel absence (sukūn) ⓘ
writingDirection right-to-left ⓘ
writingSystemType consonant-based ⓘ

Referenced by (178)

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

Arabic → hasDerivedScript → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Punjab → scriptUsed → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Shahmukhi
Punjabi language → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Shahmukhi script
Punjabi language → primaryScriptInPakistan → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Shahmukhi script
Persian language → scriptVariant → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Perso-Arabic script → hasVariant → Perso-Arabic script self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sindhi Arabic script
Urdu language → hasWritingSystemOrigin → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
subject surface form: Urdu
this entity surface form: Persian alphabet
Azerbaijanis → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Perso-Arabic script (Iran)
Hausa → usesAlphabet → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ajami script
Pashto language → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Pashto alphabet
Ramin → script → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Persian alphabet
Persian Jews → scriptUsed → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Persian alphabet
Balochi → hasWritingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Saraiki → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sindhi-style Arabic script
Azerbaijani language → historicalScript → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Judeo-Persian → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Persian alphabet
Sindhi → scriptVariant → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sindhi-Arabic script
Dravidian languages → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Modern Javanese → hasWritingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Arabic script (Pegon)
Ottoman Turkish → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ottoman Turkish Arabic script
Kashmiri Pandit → scriptHistoricallyUsed → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Iranian languages → writingSystemUsed → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Persian alphabet
Punjabi literature → hasWritingSystems → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Shahnameh → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Persian alphabet
Hazaras → scriptForLanguage → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Persians → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Persian alphabet
Southwestern Iranian languages → hasWritingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Persian alphabet
Hazaragi → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Indo-Iranian languages → writingSystemsInclude → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Aimaqs → usesScript → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Nastaʿlīq → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Shahmukhi script → usesAdditionalLettersFrom → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Urdu script
Shahmukhi script → closelyRelatedTo → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Urdu script
Shahmukhi script → closelyRelatedTo → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Persian script
Shahmukhi script → hasLetterSetSimilarity → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Persian alphabet
Rajasthani → script → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Kurdish language → writingStandard → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sorani alphabet for Central Kurdish
Brahui people → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Sasak language group → hasWritingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Arabic script (historically, Pegon)
Lashkari Zaban → script → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Dogri → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Seraiki → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Sorani → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Arabic-based Sorani alphabet
Kamviri language → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Tregami language → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Ashkun language → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
National Anthem of Pakistan → script → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Shiraz, Iran → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Persian alphabet
Saraiki people → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Derawali → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ