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The basic Arabic alphabet contains 28 letters. Forms using the Arabic script to write other languages added and removed letters: for example ژ is often used to represent /ʒ/ in adaptations of the Arabic script. Unlike Greek -derived alphabets, Arabic has no distinct upper and lower case letterforms.
Arabic(اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, al-ʿarabiyyah[alʕaraˈbijːa]ⓘor عَرَبِيّ, ʿarabīy[ˈʕarabiː]ⓘor [ʕaraˈbij]) is a Central Semitic languageof the Afroasiatic language familyspoken primarily in the Arab world.[14] The ISOassigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of Literary Arabic ...
Arwi language (a mixture of Arabic and Tamil) uses the Arabic script together with the addition of 13 letters. It is mainly used in Sri Lanka and the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu for religious purposes. Arwi language is the language of Tamil Muslims. Arabi Malayalam is Malayalam written in the Arabic script.
Arabic Braille (Arabic: بِرَيْل الْعَرَبِيَّة, birayl alʿarabīyah) is the braille alphabet for the Arabic language.It descends from a braille alphabet brought to Egypt by an English missionary prior to 1878, so the letter assignments generally correspond to English Braille and to the same romanization as in other braille systems, like Greek and Russian.
AllMusic. [1] A is for Allah is the name of a double album created for Muslim children by Yusuf Islam (formerly known as Cat Stevens ). The album was released on 11 July 2000 by Resurgence UK Records. The title song was written in 1980 upon the birth of Yusuf's first child, a girl named Hasanah. [2] Yusuf wanted his daughter to learn the Arabic ...
Classical Arabic or Quranic Arabic (Arabic: العربية الفصحى التراثية, romanized: al-ʻArabīyah al-Fuṣḥā at-Turāthīyah, lit. 'the most eloquent classic Arabic') is the standardized literary form of Arabic used from the 7th century and throughout the Middle Ages onwards, having succeeded the Paleo-Arabic script. It was ...
The Arabic alphabet is first attested in its classical form in the 7th century. See PERF 558 for the first surviving Islamic Arabic writing. The Quran was transcribed in Kufic script at first, which was then developed along with the Meccan and Medini [ ar] scripts, according to Ibn an-Nadim in Al-Fihrist.
Maghrebi script or Maghribi script ( Arabic: الخط المغربي) refers to a loosely related family of Arabic scripts that developed in the Maghreb (North Africa), al-Andalus ( Iberia ), and Bilad as-Sudan (the West African Sahel ). Maghrebi script is directly derived from the Kufic script, [1] [2] [3] and is traditionally written with a ...