Arebica
Sign in to savethumb|The handbook Bosnian Book of the Science of Conduct, published in 1831 by the Bosnian author and poet Abdulvehab Ilhamija, is printed in Arebica. Arebica (; ) is a variant of the Perso-Arabic script used to write the Serbo-Croatian language. It was used mainly between the 16th and 20th centuries and is frequently categorized as part of Aljamiado literature. During Austro-Hungarian rule, there were unsuccessful efforts by Bosnian Muslims to grant Arebica equal status alongside Latin and Cyrillic alphabets.
Key facts
- Writing system.name
- Arebica
- Writing system.type
- Alphabet, based upon the
- Writing system.typedesc
- Perso-Arabic script
- Writing system.time
- 16th–20th century
- Writing system.languages
- Serbo-Croatian
- Writing system.ipa note
- no
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Origin
- Contemporary use
- Alphabet
- Ligatures
- Text examples
- Article 1, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Tehran
- See also
- Footnotes
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|The handbook Bosnian Book of the Science of Conduct, published in 1831 by the Bosnian author and poet Abdulvehab Ilhamija, is printed in Arebica. Arebica (; ) is a variant of the Perso-Arabic script used to write the Serbo-Croatian language. It was used mainly between the 16th and 20th centuries and is frequently categorized as part of Aljamiado literature. During Austro-Hungarian rule, there were unsuccessful efforts by Bosnian Muslims to grant Arebica equal status alongside Latin and Cyrillic alphabets.
Apart from literature, Arebica was used in religious schools and administration, though in much less use than other scripts. It originated in the 16th century in Ottoman Bosnia and was significantly reformed in the 20th century by the Bosnian imam Mehmed Džemaludin Čaušević.
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