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Tharique Azeez ✦ தாரிக் அஸீஸ் Profile picture
Tharique Azeez ✦ தாரிக் அஸீஸ்
@ThariqueAzeez
“Typography Guy” | Type Designer & Lettering Artist | Featured by Apple, Google & AR Rahman Sir. | Creating https://t.co/viwOB3vu6a 🟢 Available for work
Oct 31, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Could you read the following text?

عَرَبُ تّمِۻْ

Even if you are familiar with the Arabic script, you will notice some of its characters are different from the Arabic letterforms.

This is connected to the Tamil script. Let's find out more.

A thread 🧵 👇 Although it looks like Arabic, it is Arwi, the Arabic-influenced dialect of Tamil.

Arwi is also known as Arabu-Tamil.

With 28 letters from the Arabic alphabet and 12, specifically modified Arabic glyphs to form the Tamil sounds creates the Arwi alphabet.