Nastaliq

Nastaliq
نَسْتَعْلِیق
"Welcome to Wikipedia" in Persian
from Persian Wikipedia
(In print: به ویکی‌پدیا خوش آمدید)
Script type
Time period
14th century AD – present
DirectionRight-to-left[1]
RegionCommonly used in Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Xinjiang
Historically used in Iraq, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan
LanguagesClassical Persian
Kashmiri
Punjabi (Shahmukhi)
Urdu
Turkic languages
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Aran (161), ​Arabic (Nastaliq variant)
Example saying, "خط نڛتعليق" ("Nastaliq script") in Nastaliq.
The dotted form ڛ is used in place of س.

Nastaliq (/ˌnæstəˈlk, ˈnæstəlk/;[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 (Shahmukhi) 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]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Nastaliq". Lexico Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on March 28, 2022. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  3. ^ Blair, p. xxii, 286.
  4. ^ Gholam-Hosayn Yusofi (December 15, 1990). "Calligraphy". Encyclopædia Iranica.
  5. ^ Atif Gulzar; Shafiq ur Rahman (2007). "Nastaleeq: A challenge accepted by Omega" (PDF). TUGboat. 29: 1–6.