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The modified version of the Arabic script originally devised for use with Persian is known as the Perso-Arabic script by scholars. [citation needed] When the Arabic script is used to write Serbo-Croatian, Sorani, Kashmiri, Mandarin Chinese, or Uyghur, vowels are mandatory.
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- right-to-left script
- Arabic
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 scripts, according to Ibn an-Nadim in Al-Fihrist.
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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 alphabet with five additional letters: پ چ ژ گ, in addition the obsolete ڤ.
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- Persian
May 25, 2017 · #1. The question might be too obscure... but well, to where else can i turn for help? i know Persian adopted the Arabic script early on, they start to produce literature with Arabic letters in the 9th century. But i haven't found info on the history of the particular characters of the modified Perso-Arabic script, when did they start to use them?
In 539 BCE, after the invasion and incorporation of Babylon into the Persian Empire, Cyrus the Great (ca. 580–529 BCE), founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, put forth this decree etched on a cylinder in Akkadian cuneiform script, pronouncing that he was the new king of Babylon.
Jan 9, 2015 · The Middle Persian script developed from the Aramaic script and became the official script of the Sassanian empire (224-651 AD). It changed little during the time it was in use, but around the 5th century AD, it spawned a number of new scripts, including the Psalter and Avestan scripts.
Jun 14, 2013 · Reprints & Permissions. Read this article. In this paper, I will examine diacritics in order to show that the graphemics of a language is in principle dependent on its phonological structure. I distinguish three types of diacritics: (1) Those that represent distinctive features, i.e., that have a consistent function in the specific writing system.
