ISO 15924
Aran
Family
Middle Eastern
Type
abjad
Direction
RTL bidirectional
Baseline
bottom
Word separation
between words
Ligatures
required
Status
Current
Unicode
true
Diacritics
true
Contextual forms
true

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