Arabic

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Data

ISO 15924 Arab 160
Type Abjad
Family Semitic
Direction RtL
Diacritics Yes
Contextual Forms Yes
Capitals Used No
Glyphs 28
Earliest Location Mecca
Earliest Date 400 CE
Latest Date Present
Ancestry
  • Nabataen
    • Aramean
      • Syriac
        • Arabic
          • Hanifi
          • N'Ko
          • Nastaliq
          • Pashto alphabet
          • Persian alphabet

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Bauer, Thomas 1996 The World's Writing Systems, Arabic Writing, 559-564 Oxford University Press
Coulmas, Florian 1999 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 1-33 Blackwell Publishing
Ira M. Lapidus 2012 Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century: A Global History, Part I: The Beginnings of Islamic Civilizations, 37 Cambridge University Press
Rodgers, Henry 2005 Writing Systems of the World, Semitic, 125 Blackwell Publishing