Nastaliq is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Persian and Arabic scripts, and is used for several significant Indo-Iranian languages (namely all Iranic and some Indo-Aryan languages), predominantly Persian, Kurdish, Pashto, Balochi, Urdu, Sindhi, Saraiki, Kashmiri and Punjabi (in Pakistan). It is also often used for Ottoman Turkish, but rarely for Arabic (particularly in Iraq) and Arwi.
Nastaliq is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Persian and Arabic scripts, and is used for several significant Indo-Iranian languages (namely all Iranic and some Indo-Aryan languages), predominantly Persian, Kurdish, Pashto, Balochi, Urdu, Sindhi, Saraiki, Kashmiri and Punjabi (in Pakistan). It is also often used for Ottoman Turkish, but rarely for Arabic (particularly in Iraq) and Arwi.
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