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Re:A New History of Arabia, Written in Stone (2018) by muststopmyths on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:22AM (#25685534)
Urdu extends Persian, not Arabic. Those two are very, very close but not identical IIRC (it's been 20 years since I studied Arabic). Disregarding pronunciation differences of the same character, there are a few different characters.
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Re:A New History of Arabia, Written in Stone (2018) by muststopmyths on Friday January 08, 2021 @03:32PM (#25690054)
To clarify, the scripts not the languages are close.
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