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Writing portal. The Persian alphabet ( Persian: الفبای فارسی, romanized : Alefbâye Fârsi ), also known as the Perso-Arabic script, is the right-to-left alphabet used for the Persian language. It is a variation of the Arabic script with five additional letters: پ چ ژ گ, in addition the obsolete ڤ. [1]
The basic Arabic alphabet contains 28 letters. Forms using the Arabic script to write other languages added and removed letters: for example Persian, Ottoman Turkish, Kurdish, Urdu, Sindhi, Azerbaijani, Malay, Acehnese, Banjarese, Javanese, Pashto, Punjabi, Uyghur, Arwi and Arabi Malayalam all have additional letters in their alphabets.
Old Persian was first written in about 600 BC in the Old Persian Cuneiform. The language had evolved into what we known as Middle Persian by about 300 BC, and was written with the Pahlavi, Manichaean and Avestan alphabets. From 800 AD the language is known as Modern Persian, and was written with the Persian of Perso-Arabic alphabet.
The script is cursive e, which means most letters in a word connect to each other; when they are typed, contemporary word processors automatically join adjacent letters. The Persian alphabet consists of 32 characters, 28 are are similar to Arabic and and 4 additional ones are exclusive to Persian: (P)"پ," (ZH)"ژ," (G)"گ," (CH)"چ".
The Modern Perso-Arabic script derives from the fourth century North Arabic script, which in turn was adapted from the Nabatean Aramaic script to write the Arabic language (Gruendler, 1993; Bauer, 1996). Due to the spread of Islam throughout much of Africa, Asia, and parts of Europe, it has come,
The script used for writing Pahlavi was adapted from the ancient Aramaic script. After the Islamization of Persia, (651–present), a modified Arabic script replaced the older scripts. Modern Persian is a continuation of the pre-Islamic Pahlavi language that has incorporated many Arabic and Islamic terms.
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