Urdu alphabet
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title:
Urdu alphabet
text:
The Urdu alphabet is the right-to-left alphabet used for writing Urdu. It is a modification of the Persian alphabet, which itself is derived from the Arabic script. It has official status in the republics of Pakistan, India and South Africa. The Urdu alphabet has up to 39 or 40 distinct letters with no distinct letter cases and is typically written in the calligraphic Nastaʿlīq script, whereas Arabic is more commonly written in the Naskh style. Usually, bare transliterations of Urdu into the Lat
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description:
Writing system used for Urdu
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu_alphabet
date created:
2006-08-25T18:13:53Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T21:32:56Z
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