Arabic (Nastaliq variant)

Middle Eastern

script: Aran

family: Middle Eastern

type: abjad

whitespace: between words

open_type_tag: none

complex_positioning: yes

unicode: true

diacritics: true

contextual_forms: true

status: Current

baseline: bottom

ligatures: required

direction: rtl

The Nastaliq variant of Arabic script is a cursive script, written horizontally but at a sloping angle where the longer the sequence of characters is in a calligraphically-connected cluster, the taller it becomes. It has short verticals and long horizontal strokes. Due to the slope and calligraphic style, placement of nuqtas (dots) on the base characters is forced to vary quite a bit among different letters and even different forms of the same letter. Words are separated by a space.

The name (Nastaliq) is a composite of the names for the \\\Naskh\\\" and \\\"Taliq\\\" styles of writing. Nastaliq is used in Afghanistan