Arabic script (العربية)

ISO Arab RTL

مرحبا

The Arabic script is an abjad used to write Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Kurdish, Sindhi, Uyghur and dozens of other languages across the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. It is written right-to-left with 28 basic letters that take different forms depending on their position in a word (initial, medial, final and isolated).

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Languages written with Arabic

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Arabic ar

Middle East & North Africa · ~310,000,000 speakers

Persian (Farsi) fa

Iran · ~70,000,000 speakers

Urdu ur

Pakistan & India · ~230,000,000 speakers

Pashto ps

Afghanistan & Pakistan · ~50,000,000 speakers

Kurdish (Sorani) ku

Kurdistan · ~25,000,000 speakers

Sindhi sd

Pakistan · ~32,000,000 speakers

ئۇيغۇرچە

Uyghur ug

Xinjiang, China · ~10,000,000 speakers

Arabic alphabet

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