Hello,
Unicode 3.0 mentions 11 contemporary languages written in Arabic, most from Central
Asia, none from Africa except Arabic---Berber is not mentioned. Is Arabic script no
longer used south of the Sahara? Or does standard Arabic script easily cover relevant
African languages?
My usually excellent university library did not answer this question also: today how
many languages are written in Arabic script?
I can only find 25: Arabic Balti Baluchi Berber Farsi Hausa Karaite Kashmiri
Kazakh Kirghiz Kurmanji Luri Mazanderani Moplah Panjabi---Pakistani Pashto
Pulaar Sindhi Siraiki (also known as Saraiki or Lahnda or Western Panjabi) Sulu
Uighur Urdu Uzbek Wolof
Help appreciated with improving my list-----Elaine
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