Arabic
Writing system
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The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world, the second-most widely used writing system in the world by number of... Wikipedia
Child systems: N'Ko; Thaana; Hanifi script; Persian alphabet
Direction: Right-to-left script
ISO 15924: Arab (160), Arabic
Parent systems: Egyptian hieroglyphs > Proto-Sinaitic > Phoenician > Aramaic > Nabataean > Arabic script