A Brief Survey of Proposals to Simplify Arabic Script

© Mamoun Sakkal 2000

Illustrations


Farouq Alphabet, 2nd proposal, no date (c. 1943/44). Elias Akawi, Cairo, Egypt. Image from Akawi's book: Alefbaa Farouq: al-Hurouf al-Jadidah (Farouq Alphabet: the New Script), c. 1943.


Details of Tshkeel (vowel addition) in Farouq Alphabet, 2nd proposal, no date (c. 1943/44). Elias Akawi, Cairo, Egypt. Image from Akawi's book: Alefbaa Farouq: al-Hurouf al-Jadidah (Farouq Alphabet: the New Script), c. 1943.

Farouq Alphabet, 3rd proposal, no date. Elias Akawi, Cairo, Egypt. Image from al-Khatt al-Arabi (Arabic calligraphy)

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