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 Calligraphy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Diwani script is a cursive style of Arabic calligraphy developed during the reign of the early Ottoman Turks ( 16th and early 17th centuries).
Korean, Seoyae 書藝, all meaning "the way of writing") is considered an important art in East Asia and the most refined form of East Asian painting.
Islamic world draw on the heritage of calligraphy to use calligraphic inscriptions or abstractions in their work.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Calligraphy

  
 16. Writing: History, and Typology
Arabic is written in either of two forms: Kufic, a heavy, bold, formal script, was devised at the end of the 7th century; Naskhi, a cursive form, is the parent of modern Arabic writing.
It has spread to such languages as Persian and Urdu and is generally used by the Islamic world: throughout the Near and Middle East, in parts of Asia and Africa, and in southern Europe.
The question arises whether the various alphabets of India and Southeast Asia are indigenous developments or offshoots of early Semitic.
www.uni-ulm.de /uni/intgruppen/memosys/desn22.htm

  
 Tibetan alphabet
The Tibetan alphabet is syllabic, like many of the alphabets of India and South East Asia.
Cursive versions of the alphabet are used for informal writing.
The minister then reputedly devised a script for Tibetan based on the Devanagari model and also wrote a grammar of Tibetan based on Sanskrit grammars.
www.omniglot.com /writing/tibetan.htm

  
 Tibetan alphabet, pronunciation and language
The Tibetan alphabet is syllabic, like many of the alphabets of India and South East Asia.
Cursive versions of the alphabet are used for informal writing.
The minister then reputedly devised a script for Tibetan based on the Devanagari model and also wrote a grammar of Tibetan based on Sanskrit grammars.
www.omniglot.com /writing/tibetan.htm

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