In Pashto they call it "Pashto Alefbe" having 15 Extra Characters,
while in Urdu called "Hurruf Tahajee" haveing upto 6 extra Characters,
As Mr. Roozbeh said "There are few people who refer to it as Arabic script,
namely some
> linguists and some Unicodies".
Liwal
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> > I wonder what non-Arabs users of the Arabic script call it. Perhaps
Roozbeh
> > Pournander and N.R. Liwal can help us: how is the "Arabic alphabet"
called
> > in Farsi, Urdu, and Pashtun?
>
> Persian speakers call it "alefbaa-ye faarsi". Persian Alphabet. The
> problem is similiar to the Chinese case. They consider it offensive to
> refer to the script as the Arabic alphabet.
>
> They also think that Persian speakers have contributed enough to the
> script to call it their own. For example, I have heard (I'm not sure) that
> Arabic vowels (e.g. U+064B..U+0655) are invention of Persians who needed
> to read Koran right.
>
> There are few people who refer to it as Arabic script, namely some
> linguists and some Unicodies.
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