The Arabic keyboard ( ar, لوحة المفاتيح العربية, ''lawḥat al-mafātīḥ al-`Arabīyyah'') is the Arabic

keyboard layout A keyboard layout is any specific physical, visual or functional arrangement of the keys, legends, or key-meaning associations (respectively) of a computer keyboard, mobile phone, or other computer-controlled typographic keyboard. is the actua ...

used for the Arabic alphabet. All computer Arabic keyboards contain both Arabic letters and

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, the latter being necessary for

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and e-mail addresses. Since

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...

is written from right to left, when one types with an Arabic keyboard, the letters will start appearing from the right side of the screen.

Layouts

Machine a ecrire arabe.png, An Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter with Arabic keyboard Arabic_keyboard.jpg, An

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computer Arabic keyboard

Arabic typewriter

The Arabic layout typewriter was first patented by Selim Shibli Haddad, a Syrian artist and inventor. A British patent was filed three months later, on 1 December 1899, by Philippe Waked, the first person to type a document in Arabic. Both patents expired in 1919, prompting mass production in both Egypt and abroad.Zeina Dowidar & Ahmed Ellaithy
The Invention of the Arabic Typewriter
', 31 October 2019, Kerning Cultures Arabic typewriter keyboard layout

Sakhr/MSX Arabic Keyboard

IBM PC The IBM Personal Computer (model 5150, commonly known as the IBM PC) is the first microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the IBM PC compatible de facto standard. Released on August 12, 1981, it was created by a team ...
Arabic Keyboard

Mac Arabic Keyboard

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Arabic Keyboard

References

External links

Typing machines for arabic group languages
Patent {{Keyboard layouts

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Arabic-script keyboard layouts Input methods