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The Arabic alphabet (Arabic: الْأَبْجَدِيَّة الْعَرَبِيَّة, al-abjadīyah al-ʿarabīyah IPA: [ʔælʔæbʒædijːæ-lʕɑrɑbijːæ] or الْحُرُوف الْعَرَبِيَّة, al-ḥurūf l-ʿarabīyah), or Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as it is codified for writing Arabic.
Origins. The Arabic alphabet evolved either from the Nabataean, [1] [2] or (less widely believed) directly from the Syriac. [3] The table below shows changes undergone by the shapes of the letters from the Aramaic original to the Nabataean and Syriac forms. The Arabic script shown is that of post-Classical and Modern Arabic—notably different ...
The Arabic alphabet is an abjad that is used to write several languages of the Middle East such as Arabic, Persian, Pashto and Urdu. The script is the third most widely used script in the world, after the Latin and Chinese scripts.
The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world (after the Latin script ), [2] the second-most widely used writing system in the world by number of countries using it, and the third-most by number of users (after the ...
Letter Or Digraph [a]Letter Or Digraph [a]Letter Or Digraph [a]Use & Pronunciationپـ ـپـ ـپ پـ ـپـ ـپ Pe, used to represent the phoneme / p / ...ݐـ ـݐـ ـݐ ݐـ ـݐـ ـݐ used to represent the equivalent of the ...ٻـ ـٻـ ـٻ ٻـ ـٻـ ـٻ B̤ē, used to represent a voiced bilabial ...ڀـ ـڀـ ـڀ ڀـ ـڀـ ـڀ represents an aspirated voiced bilabial ...- See below
- right-to-left script
- Arabic
The Arabic language is written from right to left in a consonant alphabet, which is also called an abjad. Since it is so widely spoken throughout the world, the language is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. The other official languages of the UN are: English, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese.
- 292 million (2017)
- Modern Standard Arabic
- /al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabiː/