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Iske imla

İske imlâ (Tatar language for Old Orthography) is a variant of Arabic alphabet, used for Tatar language before 1920 and Old Tatar language.

The additional characters, what could not be found in Arabic and Persian was firstly invented in Chagatai language. The final alphabet was reformatted by Qayum Nasiri in the 1870s. In 1920 it was replased by Yanga imla (which was not Abjad, but with the same base).

See also: Tatar alphabet.


name Initial Medial Final Stand-alone modern Tatar alphabet
1 älif آ آ a
2 älif ä
3 bi b
4 pi p
5 ti t
6 si s
7 cim c
8 çi ç
9 xi x
10 x
11 däl d
12 zäl z
13 ra r
14 zi z
15 r
16 sin, sen s
17 şın ş
18 sad s
19 dad, z’ad ﺿ d, z
20 t
21 z
22 ğäyn ğ
23 ğayn ğ
24 fi f
25 qaf q
26 kaf k
27 gaf g
28 ñ
29 läm l
30 mim m
31 nün n
32 ha h
33 waw w, u, ü, o, ö
34 vaw v
35 ya y, yı, ye, í, i


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