The alphabet in 16 fonts: Noto Nastaliq Urdu, Scheherazade, Lateef, Noto Naskh Arabic, Markazi Text, Noto Sans Arabic, Baloo Bhaijaan, El Messiri SemiBold, Lemonada Medium, Changa Medium, Mada, Noto Kufi Arabic, Reem Kufi, Lalezar, Jomhuria, and Rakkas. This letter is no longer used, as the /ОІ/-sound changed to /b/, e.g. Historically, there was also a special letter for the sound /ОІ/. For clarification, they are often called бёҐГ¤-ye jimi (literally ' jim-like бёҐe' after jim, the name for the letter Ш¬ that uses the same base form) and hГў-ye do-ДЌeЕЎm (literally 'two-eyed he', after the contextual middle letterform ЩЂЩ‡ЩЂ), respectively. The only ambiguous name is he, which is used for both Ш and Щ‡. The names of the letter are mostly the ones used in Arabic except for the Persian pronunciation. Since the script is cursive, the appearance of a letter changes depending on its position: isolated, initial (joined on the left), medial (joined on both sides) and final (joined on the right) of a word. Extended versions of Perso-Arabic script are used to write Iranian languages of Afghanistan like Pashto, and also Indo-Aryan languages of Pakistan like Urdu, Punjabi, Saraiki, Sindhi and Kashmiri.Д®xample showing the NastaКїlД«q calligraphic style's proportion rulesД«elow are the 32 letters of the modern Persian alphabet. The script is cursive, meaning most letters in a word connect to each other when they are typed, contemporary word processors automatically join adjacent letter forms.

The script is mostly but not exclusively right-to-left mathematical expressions, numeric dates and numbers bearing units are embedded from left to right. The replacement of the Pahlavi scripts with the Persian alphabet to write the Persian language was done by the Saffarid dynasty and Samanid dynasty in 9th-century Greater Khorasan. After the Muslim conquest of Persia and the fall of the Sasanian Empire in the 7th century, Arabic became the language of government and especially religion in Persia for two centuries. The Persian script is directly derived and developed from the Arabic script. The Persian language spoken in Tajikistan ( Tajiki Persian) is written in the Tajik alphabet, a modified version of the Cyrillic alphabet since the Soviet era. The Persian alphabet ( Persian: Ш§Щ„ЩЃШЁШ§ЫЊ ЩЃШ§Ш±ШіЫЊвЂЋ, romanized: AlefbДЃ-ye FДЃrsi) or Perso-Arabic script is a writing system used for the Persian language spoken in Iran ( Western Persian) and Afghanistan ( Dari Persian).

Farsi fonts with persian numbers