Arabic alphabet

Use of the Arabic alphabet in the world
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Arabic abjad
Script type	Abjad
Time period	400 CE to the present
Direction	right-to-left
Languages	Arabic, Persian, Baloch, Urdu, Kurdish, Pashto, Sindhi, Malay and others
Related scripts
Parent systems	Proto-Canaanite Phoenician Aramaic Nabataean or Syriac Arabic abjad
Unicode
Unicode range	U+0600 to U+06FF U+0750 to U+077F U+FB50 to U+FDFF U+FE70 to U+FEFF
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

The Arabic alphabet is an abjad that is used to write several languages of the Middle East such as Arabic, Persian, Pashto and Urdu. The script is the third most widely used script in the world, after the Latin and Chinese scripts.