![]() ![]() The angles of the connecting strokes of the lowercase “o” change depending on the following letter. ![]() When calligraphers used to write Nasta’liq by hand, they traditionally used a reed pen. Hindi is written from left to right in the Devanagari writing system, while Urdu is written from right to left in the Nasta'liq style of the Arabic writing system. Yet the writing systems used for each language are very different. Speakers of both languages can understand each other. To a great extent, the Urdu language is similar to Hindi. Let’s go back in history and review some features of the Urdu language, the Nasta'liq script, and technological problems to find some more reasons. One reason is that technology companies have not seen Urdu-speaking communities as important markets and have not invested resources to develop Nasta’liq typefaces. If there is such a large population of Urdu speakers, you might wonder why there are so few typefaces for this population. Urdu speakers still sometimes write emails and messages in Romanized Urdu (the transliteration of Urdu in the Latin alphabet). The scarcity of Nasta'liq typefaces was so dire that some newspapers and other printed materials were written by hand. Due to both design and engineering challenges, there were only a few typefaces available for the Urdu language in the preferred Nasta'liq writing style of the Arabic writing system. Urdu is the first language of over 70 million speakers and a second language to over 160 million people, mostly in Pakistan and India. ![]()
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