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DEVANAGARI SCRIPT

See Also: Devanagari script


The Devanagari script is an Abugida writing system, so the written form of Consonant s have an inherent default vowel afterward, namely a Schwa . Consonants which have other vowels afterward use diacritical marks around the consonant. The script is written from left to right, with a top-bar connecting the letters together.


PERSO-ARABIC SCRIPT

See Also: Urdu alphabet


The Perso-Arabic Script is an extension of the Arabic Alphabet . It is written from right to left, and most letters connect to each other. This leads to different forms of a letter depending on its position in a word, although the different forms generally resemble each other. Most Vowel s are omitted in normal texts, although they may be written for disambiguation or pedagogical purposes. Urdu is primarily written in a Calligraphic style of the script called Nasta'liq .

See Also: Nasta'liq Script


ROMANIZED HINDUSTANI

The Latin Alphabet has been used to write Hindustani for technological or internationalization reasons. Roman Urdu uses the Basic Latin Alphabet . It is most commonly used by young native speakers for technological applications, such as Chat , Email s and SMS .

ITRANS , ISCII , IAST , and Harvard-Kyoto romanization schemes have been employed primarily for usage by non-native speakers who are more familiar with the Latin alphabet.

See Also: Roman Urdu


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