| Nastaliq نَسْتَعْلِیق | |
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Time period | 14th century AD – present |
| Direction | Right-to-left[1] |
| Region | Commonly used in Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Xinjiang Historically used in Iraq, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan |
| Languages | Classical Persian Kashmiri Punjabi Urdu Turkic languages |
| ISO 15924 | |
| ISO 15924 | Aran (161), Arabic (Nastaliq variant) |
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The dotted form ڛ is used in place of س.
Nastaliq (/ˌnæstəˈliːk, ˈnæstəliːk/;[2] نستعلیق, Persian: [næstʰæʔliːq]; Urdu: [nəst̪ɑːliːq]), also romanized as Nastaʿlīq or Nastaleeq, is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Perso-Arabic script and it is used for some Indo-Iranian languages, predominantly Classical Persian, Kashmiri, Punjabi and Urdu. It is often used also for Ottoman Turkish poetry, but rarely for Arabic. Nastaliq developed in Iran from naskh beginning in the 13th century[3][4] and remains widely used in Iran, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and other countries for written poetry and as a form of art.[5]
- ^ Akram, Qurat ul Ain; Hussain, Sarmad; Niazi, Aneeta; Anjum, Umair; Irfan, Faheem (April 2014). "Adapting Tesseract for Complex Scripts: An Example for Urdu Nastalique". 2014 11th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems. 11th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems. Tours, France: IEEE. pp. 191–195. doi:10.1109/DAS.2014.45. ISBN 978-1-4799-3243-6.
- ^ "Nastaliq". Lexico Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on March 28, 2022. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
- ^ Blair, p. xxii, 286.
- ^ Gholam-Hosayn Yusofi (December 15, 1990). "Calligraphy". Encyclopædia Iranica.
- ^ Atif Gulzar; Shafiq ur Rahman (2007). "Nastaleeq: A challenge accepted by Omega" (PDF). TUGboat. 29: 1–6.