Arabic (Nastaliq Variant)

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Data

Alternate Names Nastaliq
ISO 15924 Aran 161
Type Abjad
Family Middle Eastern
Direction RtL
Diacritics Yes
Contextual Forms Yes
Capitals Used No
Glyphs 28
Inventor Mīr Alī
Earliest Date 1300 CE
Latest Date Present
Ancestry
  • Arabic
    • Arabic (Nastaliq Variant)

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Blair, Sheila 2008 Islamic Calligraphy, Chapter Seven Calligraphy in Iran and its Environs under the Mongols and Turkomans, 241-315 Edinburgh University Press
Coulmas, Florian 1996 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 350-363 Blackwell Publishing