![]() The name nastaliq "is a contraction of the Persian naskh-i ta'liq ( Persian: نَسْخِ تَعلیق), meaning a hanging or suspended naskh". Nastaliq developed in Iran from naskh beginning in the 13th century and remains very widely used in Iran, Afghanistan, India and Pakistan and other countries for written poetry and as a form of art. It is often used also for Ottoman Turkish poetry, but rarely for Arabic. Nastaliq ( / ˌ n æ s t ə ˈ l iː k, ˈ n æ s t ə l iː k/ نَسْتَعْلِیق, Persian: Urdu: ), also romanized as Nastaʿlīq or Nastaleeq, is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Perso-Arabic script, and it is used for some Indo-Iranian languages, predominantly Classical Persian, Urdu, Kashmiri, Saraiki and Punjabi ( Shahmukhi). ![]() The dotted form ڛ is used in place of س. Example saying, "خط نڛتعليق" ("Nastaliq script") in Nastaliq.
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