Kazakh Arabic alphabet

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The Kazakh Arabic alphabet is a modified version of the Arabic script historically used to write the Kazakh language, particularly before the adoption of Cyrillic and Latin-based alphabets.

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Label Occurrences
Kazakh Arabic alphabet canonical 3

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf abjad
alphabet
writing system
adaptedFor Kazakh phonology
associatedWith Islamic education
Kazakh literature (pre-Soviet)
changeReason language policy reforms in the Soviet Union
modernization and secularization policies
characterSetOrigin Arabic letters
culturalRole symbol of traditional Kazakh literacy
derivedFrom Arabic script
linked to: Arabic alphabet
digitalEncoding represented using Arabic Unicode code points
direction right-to-left
historicalPeriod early Soviet era
pre-Soviet era
includesAdditionalLettersFor Kazakh consonants
Kazakh vowels
influencedBy Ottoman Turkish Arabic script practices
Persian script conventions
languageType Turkic language
orthographicType modified Arabic orthography
predecessorOf early Kazakh Latin alphabet
region Central Asia
Kazakhstan
replacedBy Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet
Kazakh Latin alphabet (1920s–1940)}
scriptCategory Arabic-derived Central Asian scripts
scriptFamily Arabic script
linked to: Arabic alphabet
scriptType consonant-based script
standardizedIn early 20th century
stillUsedBy some Kazakh communities in China
some religious communities
usageStatus historical
usedBefore modern Latin-based Kazakh alphabet reforms
widespread adoption of Cyrillic for Kazakh
usedBy Kazakh people
linked to: Kazakhs
usedFor administrative documents
poetry
religious texts
usedIn Kazakh Khanate
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
vowelRepresentation partly diacritic-based
partly with additional letters
writingDirection horizontal
writingSystemFor Kazakh language

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kazakh language writingSystem Kazakh Arabic alphabet
Kazakh Latin alphabet replaces Kazakh Arabic alphabet