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Nastaliq

Nastaliq is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Persian and sometimes Arabic scripts, and is used for several significant Indo-Iranian languages (namely all Iranian and some Indo-Aryan languages), predominantly Persian, Kurdish, Pashto, Balochi, Urdu, Sindhi, Saraiki, Kashmiri and Punjabi (in Pakistan). It is also often used for Ottoman…

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Direction
Right-to-left
Languages
Classical Persian Urdu Kashmiri Punjabi Arwi Turkic languages
Period
14th century AD – present
Region
Commonly used in Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Xinjiang Historically used in Iraq, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan
Script type
Abjad

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Shekasteh Nastaliq

Nastaliq typesetting

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Nastaliq

Nodes139
Edges138
Triples133
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014388
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related to history · 29
Nastaliq → According, Ali Alparslan, Dust Muhammad, Elaine Wright, Finally, For, Francis Richard, Gholam-Hosayn Yusofi, Hamid Reza Afsari, In, Iran, Jafar Tabrizi, Mir, Mir Ali Tabrizi, Persian, Qadi Ahmad, Qur'an, Rawāqī, Safavid, Sheila Blair
related to Nastaliq typesetting · 22
Nastaliq → Ahmed Mirza Jamil, Although, An, Hafez, In Naskh, It, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Mir Emad In, Modern Nastaliq, Monotype Corp, Monotype Imaging, Monotype Typography, Monotype's, Naskh, Noori Nastaliq, Pakistan's Daily Jang, Persian, Persian Chalipa, Software
related to Cross platform Nastaliq fonts · 21
Nastaliq → Amar Nastaleeq, Apple, Awami Nastaliq, Balochi, Fahmida Riaz, Google, High Sierra, Khowar, Likewise, Mac, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft's, Noto Nastaliq Urdu, Palula, Persian, Saraiki, Shina, The, Urdu, Urdu Typesetting
related to Shekasteh Nastaliq · 18
Nastaliq → Abdol Majid Taleqani, Ali Akbar Golestaneh, Both, Gholam Reza Esfahani, Its, Later, Manuscripts, Mirza Kuchek Esfahani, Mohammad Shafiʿ Heravi, Mortazaqoli Khan Shamlu, Most, Persian, Shafiʿa, Shekasteh, Shekasteh Nastaliq, Taleqani, The, These
related to InPage · 17
Nastaliq → As, Concept Software Pvt Ltd, Faiz Lahori Nastaliq, In, Indian, InPage, InPage Urdu, It, Kasheeda, Monotype Imaging, Noori Nastaliq, OpenType Unicode, Pakistan's, QuarkXPress, This, Unicode, Windows
related to External links · 8
Nastaliq → Arabic CalligraphyIranian Calligraphers AssociationFaiz, French, KHATTAATT, Nastaliq Script, Official Faiz Nastaliq, Persian Calligraphy, The Poetic Flow, World Islamic
related to Letter forms · 3
Nastaliq → For, The Nastaliq, Urdu
related to In Unicode · 2
Nastaliq → Arabic, Unicode
Direction · 1
Nastaliq → Right-to-left
ISO 15924 · 1
Nastaliq → .mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}Aran (161), ​Arabic (Nastaliq variant)

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persian iran urdu script style used mir font century shekasteh tabrizi ali copied also naskh arabic museum calligraphy page writing

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
NastaliqDirectionRight-to-left1.00infobox
NastaliqISO 15924.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}Aran (161), ​Arabic (Nastaliq variant)1.00infobox
NastaliqLanguagesClassical Persian Urdu Kashmiri Punjabi Arwi Turkic languages1.00infobox
NastaliqPeriod14th century AD – present1.00infobox
NastaliqRegionCommonly used in Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Xinjiang Historically used in Iraq, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan1.00infobox
NastaliqScript typeAbjad1.00infobox
Muhammad Husayn Kashmiriinstance ofNotable masters of nastaliq0.80text
Pakistan's Daily Jang to use digital typesetting instead of a group of calligraphersinstance ofit provided accurate results and allowed newspapers0.80text
Microsoft Windows or Mac OSinstance ofits non-availability on standard platforms0.80text
and the non-WYSIWYG nature of text entryinstance ofits non-availability on standard platforms0.80text
whereby the document had to be created by commands in Monotype's proprietary page description language.Examples of Nastaliq typesettingPersian Chalipa panelinstance ofits non-availability on standard platforms0.80text
Mir Emad In printinstance ofits non-availability on standard platforms0.80text

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