Countries where the Arabic script is officially used

What? China and India? That's a surprise.

 

Yeah that's true, here's a list of languages that are still being written in Arabic script or used to be written in Arabic script.
Uyghur in China are still using Arabic script.



I was looking in the Congress library and I found some maps which were painted during Ottoman empire and has a lot of details in Ottomani language , wondering will Turkish people still understand and read that map?

 

Not at national level, but Urdu is official language of Indian occupied Kashmir.

 

Lol. That's Kashmiri. And Urdu is one of recognised languages of India. India has only 2 official languages. English and Hindi

 

Urdu is the only official language of Indian occupied Kashmir, not Kashmiri.

Check Wiki before posting reply.

 

Not Turkish but normal Arabic writen map.

 

That is very cool!

 

They used the Ottoman alphabet (Lisan-ı Osmani) to write down the American names. Kinda funny but, yeah, I can read and identify some descriptions and toponyms on this map. It's easier if you know how to read Arabic.

Another old Ottoman map of North and South America.

 

Up bihar and telangana

Atleast know about history of urdu, u borrowed it from us after all @

Congrats ! I always respect arabs for conquering such large people and culturally enslaving them all

 

Who's talking about history retard? Just mentioned a fact. Up bihar and telangana, so what?

 

Chutiyape ki baate karte rehna . Kashmir has nothing to do with Urdu . Neither has Pakistan which has so deep inferiority complex it took a north west Indian Language as their national language lol . No wonder Bangladeshis cut them off .
Urdu is one of the 27 recognized languages in India .

 

The first Qurans were written in Kufic (Iraqi) script. Arabic is invented by Iraqis.

Kufic


Kufic script, 8th or 9th century (Surah 48: 27–28) Qur'an.
Kufic is the oldest calligraphic form of the various Arabic scripts and consists of a modified form of the old Nabataean script. Kufic developed around the end of the 7th century in Kufa, Iraq, from which it takes its name, and other centres.[1]

Usage


Kufic script used in a copy of the Qur'an
Kufic was prevalent in manuscripts from the 7th to 10th centuries.[2] Until about the 11th century it was the main script used to copy the Qur'an.[1] Professional copyists employed a particular form of kufic for reproducing the earliest surviving copies of the Qur'an, which were written on parchment and date from the 8th to 10th centuries.[3]

Ornamental useEdit
Kufic is commonly seen on Seljuk coins and monuments and on early Ottoman coins. Its decorative character led to its use as a decorative element in several public and domestic buildings constructed prior to the Republican period in Turkey.

The current flag of Iraq (2008) includes a kufic rendition of the takbir. Similarly, the flag of Iran(1980) has the takbir written in white square kufic script a total of 22 times on the fringe of both the green and red bands.

Square or geometric Kufic is a very simplified rectangular style of Kufic widely used for tiling. In Iran sometimes entire buildings are covered with tiles spelling sacred names like those of God, Muhammad and Ali in square Kufic, a technique known as banna'i.[4]

"Pseudo-Kufic", also "Kufesque",[citation needed]refers to imitations of the Kufic script, made in a non-Arabic context, during the Middle Ages or the Renaissance: "Imitations of Arabic in European art are often described as pseudo-Kufic, borrowing the term for an Arabic script that emphasizes straight and angular strokes, and is most commonly used in Islamic architectural decoration".[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nastaʿlīq_script




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Persian script is Naskh aka Nastaliq and pre Islamic Persian script was different.

Nastaʿlīq (Persian: نستعلیق, from نسخ Naskh and تعلیق Taʿlīq; also anglicized as Nastaleeq) is one of the main calligraphic hands used in writing the Persian script, and traditionally the predominant style in Persian calligraphy.[1]It was developed in Iran in the 14th and 15th centuries.[2] It is sometimes used to write Arabic-language text (where it is known as Taʿliq[citation needed] or Persian and is mainly used for titles and headings), but its use has always been more popular in the Persian, Turkic and Urdu sphere of influence. Nastaʿlīq has extensively been (and still is) practiced in Iran, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and other countries for written poetry and as a form of art.

A less elaborate version of Nastaʿlīq serves as the preferred style for writing the Kashmiri, Punjabi and Urdu, and it is often used alongside Naskh for Pashto. In Persian it is used for poetry only. Nastaʿlīq was historically used for writing Ottoman Turkish, where it was known as tâlik[3] (not to be confused with a totally different Persian style, also called taʿliq; to distinguish the two, Ottomans referred to the latter as ta'līq-i qadim = old ta'liq).

Nastaʿlīq is the core script of the post-Sassanid Persian writing tradition, and is equally important in the areas under its cultural influence. The languages of Iran ( Persian, Azeri, Balochi, Kurdi, Luri, etc.), Afghanistan (Dari, Pashto, Uzbek, Turkmen, etc.), Pakistan (Punjabi, Urdu, Kashmiri, Saraiki, etc.), and the Turkic Uyghur language of the Chinese province of Xinjiang, rely on Nastaʿlīq. Under the name taʿliq (lit. “suspending [script]”), it was also beloved by Ottoman calligraphers who developed the Diwani (divanî) and Ruqah (rık’a) styles from it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nastaʿlīq_script