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Encyclopedia > Eastern Arabic numerals
The Arabic alphabet

History · Transliteration
Diacritics · hamza ء
Numerals · Numeration The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing in the Arabic language. ... Shin or Sin is the twenty-first letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic (in abjadi order, 12th in modern order). ... Lamed or Lamedh is the twelfth letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic alphabet . Its value is IPA . ... Mem is the thirteenth letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic alphabet . Its value is IPA . ... If certain characters in this article display badly (as empty squares, question marks, etc), see Unicode. ... Due to the fact that the Arabic language has a number of phonemes that have no equivalent in English or other European languages, a number of different transliteration methods have been invented to represent certain Arabic characters, due to various conflicting goals: A desire to stay consistent with traditional usage... In Arabic orthography, harakat are the diacritic marks used to represent vowel sounds. ... For the Sahaba, see Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib For Hamza, the letter Ø¡ in the Arabic alphabet, representing /Ê”/, see (glottal stop). ... arabic numeration This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ...

The Eastern Arabic numerals (also called Eastern Arabic numerals, Arabic-Indic numerals, Arabic Eastern Numerals) are the symbols (glyphs) used to represent the Hindu-Arabic numeral system in conjunction with the Arabic alphabet in Egypt, Iran, Pakistan and parts of India, and also in the no longer used Ottoman Turkish script (٠.١.٢.٣.٤.٥.٦.٧.٨.٩). A variant of the Eastern Arabic numerals is used in Persian and Urdu languages. (۰،۱،۲،۳،۴،۵،۶،۷،۸،۹). In Arabic, these numbers are referred to as "Indian numbers" (أرقام هندية arqām hindiyyah) This article is about the Hindu-Arabic numeral system. ... The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing in the Arabic language. ... Persian may refer to more than one article: the Western name for Iranian (see Iran/Persia naming controversy) Persian, an Iranian language the Persians, an ethnic group a Persian, a breed of cat Persian, a Pokémon character Etymology English Persian < Old English, < Latin *Persianus, < Latin Persia, < ancient Greek Persis... Urdu () is an Indo-European language of the Indo-Aryan family which developed under Persian, Turkish, and Arabic influence in the South Asia during the time of the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire (1200-1800). ...


They are sometimes also called "Indic Numerals" in English[1], however, this nomenclature is sometimes discouraged as it "leads to confusion with the digits currently used with the scripts of India"[2] (see Indian numerals). India has produced many numeral systems. ...


In most of present-day North Africa, the usual Western numerals (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) are used; in medieval times, a slightly different set (from which, via Italy, Western "Arabic numerals" derive) was used. The numerals are arranged with their lowest value digit to the right, with higher value positions added to the left. This arrangement was adopted identically into the numerals as used in Europe. The Latin alphabet running from left to right, unlike the Arabic alphabet, this resulted in an inverse arrangement of the place-values relative to the direction of reading. Arabic numerals (or Hindu-Arabic numerals) are the most common set of symbols used to represent numbers around the world. ...


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