Nastaʿlīq

Also known as Nastaliq, Aran

thumb|right| Example reading ("Nastaliq script") in Nastaliq. The dotted form is used in place of .

Key facts

Writing system.name: Nastaliq
Writing system.type: Abjad
Writing system.languages: Classical PersianUrduKashmiriPunjabiArwiTurkic languages
Writing system.time: 14th century AD – present
Writing system.sample: Welcome to Wikipedia - fa.svg
Writing system.caption: "Welcome to Wikipedia" from the Persian Wikipedia
Writing system.imagesize: 200px
Writing system.iso15924: Aran
Writing system.note: none
Writing system.direction: Right-to-left
Writing system.region: Commonly used in Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and XinjiangHistorically used in Iraq, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan

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Wikidata facts

Country: India
Located in: Tajikistan
Based on: Arabic script
Creator: Mir Ali Tabrizi
Image: Miremad-1.jpg

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language of work or name: Saraiki
inception: 1400-00-00
name: arabe (variante nastalique)
script directionality: right-to-left
Commons category: Nastaliq
native label: نَستَعلِیق

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

History
{{transliteration|fa|Shekasteh}} ''Nastaliq''
''Nastaliq'' typesetting
InPage
Cross platform Nastaliq fonts
Letter forms
In Unicode
See also
Notes
References
Bibliography
External links

thumb|right| Example reading ("Nastaliq script") in Nastaliq. The dotted form is used in place of .

Nastaliq is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Persian and Arabic scripts, and it is used for several significant Indo-Iranian languages (namely all Iranic and some Indo-Aryan languages), predominantly Persian, Kurdish, Pashto, Balochi, Urdu, Sindhi, Saraiki, Kashmiri and Punjabi. It is also often used for Ottoman Turkish, but rarely for Arabic (particularly in Iraq) and Arwi. Nastaliq developed in Iran from a combination of Naskh and ''Ta'liq, beginning in the 13th century and it remains widely used in Iran, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and other countries for writing poetry and as a form of art.

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