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4 days ago · Letters 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. Unlike Greek -derived alphabets, Arabic has no ...
- History of The Arabic Alphabet
Epigraphic South Arabian alphabets A tomb dedicatory and a...
- Nabataean
Example in Nabataean alphabet. The Nabataean script is an...
- History of The Arabic Alphabet
2 days ago · 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.
5 days ago · South Arabian; h : ሀ: 𐩠: l : ለ: 𐩡: ḥ : ሐ: 𐩢: m : መ: 𐩣: ś : ሠ: 𐩦: r : ረ: 𐩧: s : ሰ: 𐩪: q : ቀ: 𐩤: b : በ: 𐩨: t : ተ: 𐩩: h̬ : ኀ: 𐩭: n : ነ: 𐩬 ' አ: 𐩱: k : ከ: 𐩫: w : ወ: 𐩥: ʿ : ዐ: 𐩲: z : ዘ: 𐩹: y : የ: 𐩺: d : ደ: 𐩵: g : ገ: 𐩴: ṭ : ጠ: 𐩷: ṣ : ጸ ...
2 days ago · Annotation. Ge’ez script is a script used in modern-day Eritrea and Ethiopia that dates back to the 1st century CE. Ge’ez was derived from the Ancient South Arabian script from the region around modern-day YemenUnlike a modern alphabet, the script began as an abjad, where only consonant letters are listed, but became an abugida, or a ...
6 days ago · The kingdoms of ancient South Arabia ( Sabaʾ, Minaea, Qataban, and Ḥaḍramawt) left numerous inscriptions in the Old South Arabian (OSA) languages; a descendant of the OSA alphabet was used for the composition of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic) literature and is still used by the modern Ethiopic languages.
3 days ago · The alphabet was adapted to the sound system of Arabic, which includes a number of distinctive guttural sounds (pharyngeal and uvular fricatives) and a series of velarized consonants (pronounced with accompanying constriction of the pharynx and raising of the back of the tongue). There are three short and three long vowels (/ a /, / i /, / u ...
May 14, 2024 · The Ancient North Arabian scripts. Ancient North Arabian is the name given to a group of scripts belonging to the South Semitic script family, which also includes the Ancient South Arabian alphabets (musnad and zabūr) and the vocalized alphabets used in Ethiopia for Geʿez, Amharic, etc.
