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11 unusual facts about Arabic script


Adobe InDesign

InDesign supports Unicode character encoding and there is a special Middle East version supporting complex text layout for Arabic and Hebrew types of complex script.

Bengali Language Movement

The government suggested that Bengali be written in Arabic script, as a potential solution to the language conflict.

Cia-Cia language

Wolio is falling into disuse as a written language among the Cia-Cia, as it is written using the Arabic script and Indonesian is now taught in schools with the Latin script.

Currency of Maldives

The dhigu laari is actually a long piece of silver, about three inches in length, doubled over and stamped with the name of the sultan, in Arabic.

H with descender

This letter was in use from the early 1960s, when a Latin alphabet was introduced for writing Uighur to replace the Arabic script, up until 1984–86 when the Latin alphabet was phased out and the official script was changed back to Arabic.

Karşıyaka

It is also called "KSK", and locally as Kaf Sin Kaf, following the initials in Arabic script since the club's past dates back to Ottoman times.

Kutadgu Bilig

Cairo - The copy was found in a Mamluk library in 1897 in Cairo; the Mamluk ruler of 1293-1341 is mentioned in the copy, which is written in the Arabic script.

Lām with bar

ݪ (Unicode name: Arabic Letter Lam With Bar) is an additional letter of the Arabic script, derived from lām (ل) with the addition of a bar.

Sīn with four dots above

ݜ (Unicode name: Arabic Letter Seen With Four Dots Above) is an additional letter of the Arabic script, derived from sīn (ﺱ) with the addition of four dots or two horizontal lines above the letter.

Tsakhur language

In the past (as early as the 11th century) there have been attempts to write Tsakhur in the Arabic script.

Ⱪona Yeziⱪ

Chagatai script, variant of Arabic script used for Chagatai, and formerly Uyghur, languages


Abu Saymeh

Abu Saymeh is a Muslim calligrapher who earned worldwide fame when he was selected by Victor Batarseh, the Christian mayor of Bethlehem on the West Bank, to copy out in Arabic script the Gospel of Luke from the New Testament of the Christian Bible for presentation to the Catholic Pope Benedict XVI.

Buri Wolio

Buri Wolio is an Arabic/Jawi script which is modified to write Wolio language, a language that is spoken in Bau-Bau city, Buton island, Southeast Sulawesi.

Liber Linteus

They realised the text was potentially important, but wrongly concluded that it was a transliteration of the Egyptian Book of the Dead in the Arabic script.

Utenzi wa Shufaka

This copy, which is written in Arabic script, was sent by Ludwig Krapf from Africa (most probably, German East Africa) in 1854.