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.

Observed surface forms (17)

Surface form Occurrences
Persian alphabet 15
Sindhi-Arabic script 3
Shahmukhi script 2
Urdu script 2
Ajami script 1
Arabic script 1
Arabic script (Pegon) 1
Arabic script (historically, Pegon) 1
Arabic-based Sorani alphabet 1
Ottoman Turkish Arabic script 1

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 (68)

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

Nastaʿlīq → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Ottoman Turkish → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ottoman Turkish Arabic script
Pashto language → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Pashto alphabet
Persian → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Persian alphabet
Persians → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Persian alphabet
Punjabi language → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Shahmukhi script
Saraiki → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sindhi-style Arabic script
Saraiki people → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Seraiki → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Shahnameh → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Persian alphabet
Shina → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Shiraz, Iran → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Persian alphabet
Sindhi people → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Arabic script
Sorani → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Arabic-based Sorani alphabet
Tabriz dialect → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Persian alphabet
Tregami language → writingSystem → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Iranian languages → writingSystemUsed → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Persian alphabet
Indo-Iranian languages → writingSystemsInclude → Perso-Arabic script ⓘ