On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote: > > No, Arabic script is an (impure) Abjad, and some languages even use it > as a pure Alphabet like the new Uyghur Arabic alphabet. In which case cursive vs syllabic seems to be OK. Thanks for the feedback. -- Shriramana Sharma