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<p>
Noto Sans Arabic is an unmodulated (“sans serif”) design for texts in the
Middle Eastern <em>Arabic</em> script.
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<p>
Noto Sans Arabic has multiple weights and widths, contains 1,642 glyphs, 12
OpenType features, and supports 1,161 characters from 6 Unicode blocks: Arabic
Presentation Forms-A, Arabic, Arabic Presentation Forms-B, Arabic Extended-A,
Arabic Supplement, Basic Latin.
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<h3>Supported writing systems</h3>
<h4>Arabic</h4>
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Arabic (<span class="autonym">العربية</span>) is a Middle Eastern abjad,
written right-to-left (660 million users). 2nd- or 3rd-most used script in the
world. Used for the Arabic language since the 4th century, and for many other
languages, often in Islamic countries or communities in Asia, Africa and the
Middle East, like Persian, Uyghur, Kurdish, Punjabi, Sindhi, Balti, Balochi,
Pashto, Lurish, Urdu, Kashmiri, Rohingya, Somali, Mandinka, Kazakh (in China),
Kurdish, or Azeri (in Iran). Was used for Turkish until 1928. Includes 28
basic consonant letters for the Arabic language, plus additional letters for
other languages. Some letters represent a consonant or a long vowel, while
short vowels are optionally written with diacritics. Variants include Kufi
with a very simplified structure, the widely-used Naskh calligraphic variant,
and the highly cursive Nastaliq used mainly for Urdu. Needs software support
for complex text layout (shaping). Read more on
<a href="https://scriptsource.org/scr/Arab">ScriptSource</a>,
<a href="https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/ch09.pdf#G20596"
>Unicode</a
>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15924:Arab">Wikipedia</a>,
<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Arabic_script">Wiktionary</a
>, <a href="https://r12a.github.io/scripts/links?iso=Arab">r12a</a>.
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