Arabic alphabet 1 Arabic alphabet Arabic abjad Type Abjad Languages Arabic Time period 400 to the present Parent systems Proto-Sinaitic • Phoenician • Aramaic • Syriac • Nabataean • Arabic abjad Child systems N'Ko alphabet ISO 15924 Arab, 160 Direction Right-to-left Unicode alias Arabic Unicode range U+0600 to U+06FF [1] U+0750 to U+077F [2] U+08A0 to U+08FF [3] U+FB50 to U+FDFF [4] U+FE70 to U+FEFF [5] U+1EE00 to U+1EEFF [6] the Arabic alphabet of the Arabic script ﺍ ﺏ ﺕ ﺙ ﺝ ﺡ ﺥ ﺩ ﺫ ﺭ ﺯ ﺱ ﺵ ﺹ ﺽ ﻁ ﻅ ﻉ ﻍ ﻑ ﻕ ﻙ ﻝ ﻡ ﻥ ﻩ ﻭ ﻱ • history • diacritics • hamza • numerals • numeration The Arabic alphabet (Arabic: ﺔﻴﺑﺮﺔ ﻋﻳﺪﺠﺑ ﺃ’abjadiyyah ‘arabiyyah) or Arabic abjad is the Arabic script as it is codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right to left, in a cursive style, and includes 28 letters. Because letters usually [7] stand for consonants, it is classified as an abjad.