Arabic script
The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic (Arabic alphabet) and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world (after the Latin script), the second-most widely used writing system in the world by number of countries using it, and the third-most by number of users (after the Latin and Chinese scripts). The script was first used to write texts in Arabic, most notably the Quran, the holy book of Islam.
Extends: [Arabic script](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Arabic script), [Arabic orthography](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Arabic orthography), [Right-to-left writing systems](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Right-to-left writing systems), [Abjad writing systems](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Abjad writing systems)
Properties
| Property | Expected Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Text | Arabic script |
| Languages | Text | See below |
| Time | Text | 3rd century CE to the present |
| Direction | Text | Right-to-left |
| Fam1 | Text | Egyptian hieroglyphs |
| Fam2 | Text | Proto-Sinaitic |
| Fam3 | Text | Phoenician |
| Fam4 | Text | Aramaic |
| Fam5 | Text | Nabataean |
| Children | Text | N'Ko, Hanifi script |
| Unicode | Text | U+0600–U+06FF Arabic U+0750–U+077F Arabic Supplement U+08A0–U+08FF Arabic Extended-A U+0870–U+089F Arabic Extended-B U+10EC0–U+10EFF Arabic Extended-C U+FB50–U+FDFF Arabic Pres. Forms-A U+FE7... |
| Iso15924 | Text | Arab |
| Sample | Text | Arabic-script.svg |
| Imagesize | Text | 300px |