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Re: Arabic Alphabet

From:Danny Wier <dawiertx@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 16, 2004, 2:45
From: "Danny Wier" <dawiertx@...>

> From: "Emily Zilch" <emily0@...> > > > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?
> It would be a great idea for Sindhi, which has a lot of letters. And some
of
> the Northeast Caucasian (Daghestani) languages were once written in Arabic > script; they had to have used quite a few extra characters. I'd keep the > current standard for Arabic and Farsi though.
... and I noticed the form of Arabic script the author suggested, called 'New Arabic', which has some qualities of Square Kufi. The weird feature of it is that there's a left-to-right variant.