Arabic alphabet

Arabic alphabet
Arabic alphabet;
Script type	Abjad
Time period	4th century CE – present
Direction	Right-to-left script
Languages	Arabic
Related scripts
Parent systems	Egyptian hieroglyphics Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician Aramaic Nabataean Arabic script Arabic alphabet; ; ; ; ; ;
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Arab (160), Arabic
Unicode
Unicode alias	Arabic
Unicode range	U+0600–U+06FF; Arabic,; U+0750–U+077F; Arabic Supplement,; U+0870-U+089F; Arabic Extended-B,; U+08A0–U+08FF; Arabic Extended-A,; U+FB50–U+FDFF; Arabic Presentation Forms-A,; U+FE70–U+FEFF; Arabic Presentation Forms-B,; U+10EC0-U+10EFF; Arabic Extended-C,; U+1EE00–U+1EEFF; Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols;

The Arabic alphabet (Arabic: الْأَبْجَدِيَّة الْعَرَبِيَّة, al-ʾabǧadiyyah l-ʿarabiyyah [æl.ʔæb.d͡ʒæˈdɪj.jæ l.ʕɑ.rɑˈbɪj.jæ] or الْحُرُوف الْعَرَبِيَّة, al-ḥurūf al-ʿarabiyyah), or Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right-to-left in a cursive style, and includes 28 letters, of which most have contextual letterforms. The Arabic alphabet is considered an abjad, with only consonants required to be written; due to its optional use of diacritics to notate vowels, it is considered an impure abjad.

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