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History of the Arabic alphabet - Reorganization of the alphabet | | History of the Arabic alphabet - Reorganization of the alphabet: Encyclopedia II - History of the Arabic alphabet - Reorganization of the alphabet | | Less than a century later, Arab grammarians reorganized the alphabet, for reasons of teaching, putting letters next to other letters which were nearly the same shape. This produced a new order which was not the same as the numeric order, which became less important because it was being competed with by the Indian numerals and sometimes by the Greek numerals.
The Arabic grammarians of North Africa changed the new letters, ...
See also:History of the Arabic alphabet, History of the Arabic alphabet - An innovating alphabet, History of the Arabic alphabet - Archaic model, History of the Arabic alphabet - Origins, History of the Arabic alphabet - Pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions, History of the Arabic alphabet - Early Islamic changes, History of the Arabic alphabet - Reorganization of the alphabet, History of the Arabic alphabet - Adapting the Arabic alphabet for other languages | | | History of the Arabic alphabet, History of the Arabic alphabet - Adapting the Arabic alphabet for other languages, History of the Arabic alphabet - An innovating alphabet, History of the Arabic alphabet - Archaic model, History of the Arabic alphabet - Early Islamic changes, History of the Arabic alphabet - Origins, History of the Arabic alphabet - Pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions, History of the Arabic alphabet - Reorganization of the alphabet, Abjad, Levantine order, Writing | | |
| | | History of the Arabic alphabet: Encyclopedia II - History of the Arabic alphabet - Reorganization of the alphabet
History of the Arabic alphabet - Reorganization of the alphabet
Less than a century later, Arab grammarians reorganized the alphabet, for reasons of teaching, putting letters next to other letters which were nearly the same shape. This produced a new order which was not the same as the numeric order, which became less important because it was being competed with by the Indian numerals and sometimes by the Greek numerals.
The Arabic grammarians of North Africa changed the new letters, which explains the differences between the alphabets of the East and the Maghrib.
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