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Urdu (and IIRC Western Punjabi, i.e. Punjabi as spoken/written in Pakistan) prefer to use the Nasta'liq variety of Arabic script, and historically Persian (Fars
by mcswell 4y ago
Urdu (and IIRC Western Punjabi, i.e. Punjabi as spoken/written in Pakistan) prefer to use the Nasta'liq variety of Arabic script, and historically Persian (Farsi) was written in Nasta'liq. And it is not the case that Nasta'liq is written on a base line--in fact, characters in a word tend to slant down to the left.