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Noto Nastaliq Urdu is a cursive, modulated (“serif”) Nastaliq design for texts
in the Middle Eastern <em>Arabic</em> script, especially in the Urdu language.
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Noto Nastaliq Urdu contains 1,138 glyphs, 9 OpenType features, and supports
281 characters from 6 Unicode blocks: Arabic, Arabic Supplement, Arabic
Presentation Forms-A, Basic Latin, General Punctuation, Latin-1 Supplement.
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<h3>Supported writing systems</h3>
<h4>Arabic (Nastaliq)</h4>
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Arabic (Nastaliq) is a Middle Eastern abjad, written right-to-left (250
million users). Default Arabic script variant for the Urdu language, also used
for Persian and other languages in Afghanistan, India, Iran, and Pakistan. The
Nastaliq variant of Arabic was developed in Persia (now Iran) in the 15th
century. Highly cursive, connects a sequence of letters into clusters at a
sloping angle. Needs software support for complex text layout (shaping). Read
more on <a href="https://scriptsource.org/scr/Aran">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:Aran">Wikipedia</a>,
<a href="https://r12a.github.io/scripts/links?iso=Aran">r12a</a>.
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