Kitab in Arabitsa, c. 1750-1800Basic summary of the letters and the functioning of Belarusian Arabic alphabet[1]
The Belarusian Arabic alphabet (Belarusian: Беларускі арабскі алфавіт, romanized: Biełaruski arabski ałfavit) or Belarusian Arabitsa (بَلاروُسقایا ارابیࢯا, Беларуская Арабіца, Biełaruskaja Arabica)[1] was based on the Arabic script and was developed in the 16th century (possibly 15th). It consisted of twenty-eight graphemes, including several additions to represent Belarusian phonemes not found in the Arabic language.
The Belarusian Arabic alphabet was used by the Lipka Tatars, who had been invited to settle in Belarusian territory, at the time part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. During the 14th–16th centuries they gradually stopped using their own language and started using the Old Belarusian language rendered in the Belarusian Arabic alphabet. Books of that literary tradition are known in Belarusian as Kitab (Belarusian: "Кітаб"), which is Arabic for written material.
Example of text in Arabitsa
Some Polish texts were also written in the Arabic script in the 17th century or later.[2]
^ abMaxime Seveleu-Dubrovnik, The Belarusian Arabic alphabet initiative at the FIAS. https://arabica.fias.fr/pages/origin-en(Archive)
^Ilya Yevlampiev, Karl Pentzlin and Nurlan Joomagueldinov, N4072 Revised Proposal to encode Arabic characters used for Bashkir, Belarusian, Crimean Tatar, and Tatar languages, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2, 20 May 2011. (Archive)
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