Xiao'erjing
Also known as xiaojing
thumb|right|A book on law in Arabic, with a parallel Chinese translation in the Xiao'erjing script, published in Tashkent in 1899. The page on the left side shows the book information in Arabic. The page on the right has mixed lines of Arabic—marked by a continuous black line on top—and their Chinese translation in Xiao'erjing script, that follow the Arabic original on the same line. thumb|right|Pages from a Book titled "Questions and Answers on the Faith in Islam", Published in Xining, which includes a Xiao'erjing–Hanji transliteration chart, as well a paragraph that includes Arabic loanwords
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- Abugida
- Writing system.languages
- Chinese
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- Egyptian hieroglyphs
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- Proto-Sinaitic
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- Phoenician
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- Aramaic
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- Nabataean
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- Arabic
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- Persian
- Writing system.direction
- Right-to-left
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- xej
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Article
17 sectionsContents
- Nomenclature
- Origins
- Usage
- Modern usage
- Alphabet
- Initials and consonants
- Additional consonants
- Finals and vowels
- Correspondences with pinyin
- Example
- Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Al-Fatiha (الفَاتِحَةِ)
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|right|A book on law in Arabic, with a parallel Chinese translation in the Xiao'erjing script, published in Tashkent in 1899. The page on the left side shows the book information in Arabic. The page on the right has mixed lines of Arabic—marked by a continuous black line on top—and their Chinese translation in Xiao'erjing script, that follow the Arabic original on the same line. thumb|right|Pages from a Book titled "Questions and Answers on the Faith in Islam", Published in Xining, which includes a Xiao'erjing–Hanji transliteration chart, as well a paragraph that includes Arabic loanwords
'''Xiao'erjing, Xiaorjing, Xiaojing or Benjing''', is a Perso-Arabic script used to write Sinitic languages, including Lanyin Mandarin, Zhongyuan Mandarin, Northeastern Mandarin, and Dungan. It is used on occasion by many ethnic minorities who adhere to Islam in China—mostly the Hui, but also the Dongxiang and the Salar—and formerly by their Dungan descendants in Central Asia. Orthographic reforms introduced the Latin script and later the Cyrillic script to the Dungan language, which continue to be used today.