Arabic abjad | |
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Script type | |
Time period | 400 CE to the present |
Direction | right-to-left ![]() |
Languages | Arabic, Persian, Baloch, Urdu, Kurdish, Pashto, Sindhi, Malay and others |
Related scripts | |
Parent systems | |
Unicode | |
U+0600 to U+06FF U+0750 to U+077F | |
The Arabic alphabet is an abjad that is used to write several languages of the Middle East such as Arabic, Persian, Pashto and Urdu. The script is the third most widely used script in the world, after the Latin and Chinese scripts.