Khowar alphabet

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Khowar
Khowar written in the Khowar alphabet in Nastaliq style.
Script type	Abjad
Time period	Early 20th century - present
Languages	Khowar, Balti, Burushaski, others
Related scripts
Parent systems	Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician Aramaic Nabataean Arabic Persian Urdu Khowar
Unicode
Unicode range	U+0600–U+06FF U+0750–U+077F
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The Khowar alphabet is the right-to-left alphabet used for the Khowar language. It is a modification of the Urdu alphabet, which is itself a derivative of the Persian alphabet and Arabic alphabet and uses the calligraphic Nastaʿlīq script.