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The Urdu alphabet (Urdu: اردو تہجی, romanized: urdū tahajjī or اردو حروفِ تہجی, urdū harūf-e-tahajjī), also known as Shahmukhi, is the right-to-left alphabet used for the Urdu language. It is a modification of the Persian alphabet, which is itself a derivative of the Arabic alphabet. The Urdu alphabet has up to 39[2] or 40[3] 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.
Urdu Alphabet
اردو حروف تہجی
Urdu Hurūf-e-Tahajjī
اردو تہجی
Urdu Tahajjī
Urdu example.svg
Example of writing in the Urdu alphabet: Urdu
Type
Abjad
Languages
Urdu, Balti,[citation needed] infrequent use in Burushaski,[1] others
Parent systems
Proto-Sinaitic
Phoenician
Aramaic
Nabataean
Arabic
Perso-Arabic
Urdu Alphabet
Unicode range
U+0600 to U+06FF
U+0750 to U+077F
U+FB50 to U+FDFF
U+FE70 to U+FEFF
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Usually, bare transliterations of Urdu into the Latin alphabet (called Roman Urdu) omit many phonemic elements that have no equivalent in English or other languages commonly written in the Latin script.
History
Nastaliq
Alphabet
Vowels
Diacritics
Iẓāfat
Computers and the Urdu alphabet
Romanization standards and systems
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Last edited 3 hours ago by Irtapil
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