Nastaʿlīq
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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Article
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- 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.