Nicholas Bodley wrote:

>
> At the Bahá'í Persian (I assume Farsi) site,
> <http://www.bahai.org/persian/>, there's a picture of some people at the
> left. Underneath is some blue* Arabic script, which surely looks oblique
> to my eyes! I'm wondering whether it should slope the other way, like
> "citali", reverse-slanted oblique. *In my browser
>
> The text size is quite small, so I magnified it to see what Farsi looks
> like. My hope is to learn to "cheat" :) , to see some distinctive details
> that distinguish it from the Arabic language; to do this without extensive
> study of both. Especially in the last few years, I have been studying the
> appearance of Arabic; it looks less strange with every new season. What I
> see as distinctive in Farsi is consecutive letters, each with double dots;
> I don't recall seeing those in Arabic.

Persian is usually written with a sloping variety of Arabic script
(baseline high at the start on the right, low on the left). It has four
additional letters (p, g, ch, zh). See WWS 746-9.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...