This appendix explains characters written in theArabic script.

There are 28letters used forwriting theArabiclanguage. Derived from thePhoenician alphabet, the Arabic script has been adopted for use in a wide variety of languages other than Arabic, includingPersian,Kurdish,Malay,Somali andUrdu.

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Name	ا (-) ‎أَلِف(ʔalif)	ب(b) ‎بَاء(bāʔ)	ت(t) ‎تَاء(tāʔ)	ث(ṯ) ‎ثَاء(ṯāʔ)	ج(j) ‎جِيم(jīm)	ح(ḥ) ‎حَاء(ḥāʔ)	خ(ḵ) ‎خَاء(ḵāʔ)	د(d) ‎دَال(dāl)	ذ(ḏ) ‎ذَال(ḏāl)	ر(r) ‎رَاء(rāʔ)
Letter
Name	ز(z) ‎زَاي(zāy), زَيْن(zayn)	س(s) ‎سِين(sīn)	ش(š) ‎شِين(šīn)	ص(ṣ) ‎صَاد(ṣād)	ض(ḍ) ‎ضَاد(ḍād)	ط(ṭ) ‎طَاء(ṭāʔ)	ظ(ẓ) ‎ظَاء(ẓāʔ)	ع(ʕ) ‎عَيْن(ʕayn)	غ(ḡ) ‎غَيْن(ḡayn)	ف(f) ‎فَاء(fāʔ)
Letter
Name	ق(q) ‎قَاف(qāf)	ك(k) ‎كَاف(kāf)	ل(l) ‎لَام(lām)	م(m) ‎مِيم(mīm)	ن(n) ‎نُون(nūn)	ه(h) ‎هَاء(hāʔ)	و(w) ‎وَاو(wāw)	ي(y) ‎يَاء(yāʔ)
Letter
Some letters have aninitial,medial andfinal form.

• ء‎هَمْزَة(hamza)(standalone) -هَمْزَة القَطْع(hamzat al-qaṭʕ)
• ة‎ -تَاء مَرْبُوطَة(tāʔ marbūṭa)
• ى‎ -أَلِف مَقْصُورَة(ʔalif maqṣūra), final position only, often used in place of the finalي(y) by some writers, especially in Egypt.
• أ‎ - (hamza over an ʔalif)
• إ‎ - (hamza under an ʔalif)
• ؤ‎ - (hamza over a wāw)
• ئ‎ - (hamza over a dotless yāʔ)
• آ‎ -أَلِف مَدَّة(ʔalif madda)
• ٱ‎ -هَمْزَة الوَصْل(hamzat al-waṣl)

• ـَ‎ -فَتْحَة(fatḥa)

• ـِ‎ -كَسْرَة(kasra)

• ـُ‎ -ضَمَّة(ḍamma)

• ـْ‎ -سُكُون(sukūn)

• ـّ‎ -شَدَّة(šadda)

• ـٰ‎ -أَلِف خَنْجَرِيَّة(ʔalif ḵanjariyya) - missing on standard keyboards, seldom used, only appears in a small number of words.

• ـٌ‎ -تَنْوِين الضَّمّ(tanwīn aḍ-ḍamm)

• ـٍ‎ -تَنْوِين الْكَسْر(tanwīn al-kasr)

• ـً‎ -تَنْوِين الْفَتْح(tanwīn al-fatḥ)

• ـ‎ -تَطْوِيل(taṭwīl), a lengthening symbol, has no phonetic value.

Other letters:

Other old Brahui letters:

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Other letters:

• ڑٜ(salshi rRay) -سالشی ڑ
• لٜ(moredhaniya laam = retroflex laam) -موردھنیا لام
• ݦ(moredhaiya meem) -موردھنیا میم
• ٖKhari zair (کھڑی زیر)
• ٘Moqoof jazam (موقوف جذم)
• ٛNokedaar topi numa jazam (نوکدار ٹوپی نما جزم)
• ءhamzah (ہمزہ)
• Khat-e-maddola (خطِ معدولہ)
• ـٔArabic hamza above (همزه بالا)
• ـَfatHa (فتحة)
• ـِkasra (كسرة)
• ـُDamma (ضمة)
• ـْsukuun (سكون)
• ـّshadda (شدة)

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Other letters:

Modified letters and additional symbols

• ء‎هَمْزَة(hamza)(standalone) -هَمْزَة القَطْع(hamzat al-qaṭʕ)
• ة‎ -تَاء مَرْبُوطَة(tāʔ marbūṭa)
• ى‎ -أَلِف مَقْصُورَة(ʔalif maqṣūra), final position only, often used in place of the finalي(y) by some writers, especially in Egypt.
• أ‎ - (hamza over an ʔalif)
• إ‎ - (hamza under an ʔalif)
• ؤ‎ - (hamza over a wāw)
• ئ‎ - (hamza over a dotless yāʔ)
• آ‎ -أَلِف مَدَّة(ʔalif madda)
• ٱ‎ -هَمْزَة الوَصْل(hamzat al-waṣl)

Nunation -تَنْوِين(tanwīn)This writing convention relies on Arabic vowel diacritics.

• ـٌ‎ -تَنْوِين الضَّمّ(tanwīn aḍ-ḍamm)
• ـٍ‎ -تَنْوِين الْكَسْر(tanwīn al-kasr)
• ـً‎ -تَنْوِين الْفَتْح(tanwīn al-fatḥ)</span

Other letters:

• Arabic script
• Script appendices

• Arabic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations
• Arabic terms with redundant script codes
• Translingual terms with redundant script codes
• Translingual terms with non-redundant manual script codes
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