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The Writing System Introduction The Persian alphabet, like the alphabets of many Muslim nations, is based on the 28- letter alphabet of Arabic. It has 32 letters and is ritten from right to left. Four of these letters are devised exclusively for Persian. We shall see these letters later. The Persian alphabet does not use capital letters. It does, however, use a modified version of the Western punctuation system. Unlike the alphabet, the Persian numbers are ritten from left to right. Persian uses the same figures as Arabic, the language from which the Arabic numerals of English are derived. The Persian numbers, thus, can be easily compared with those in English. We shall discuss the numerals later. In the pages that follow, the alphabet is divided into a number of letter groups. Each letter group uses a basic form. After explaining each basic form, and the manner in which that form is made, individual letters are introduced and discussed. These individual letters are different from the basic form in the number of dots and the type of diacritics or symbols that may accompany them. The sequence used in the earlier stages of this study is not the same as the native se- quence of letters taught in the schools in Iran. Once the students are familiar ith the mech- anism for producing letters and letter blocks, the native sequence will be introduced and mem- orized. This latter sequence is the one used in all alphabetizing of telephone directories, dictionaries, and other such manuals using the Persian alphabet. The entire Persian alphabet is presented on the next page. The letters are in their indepen- dent or isolated form. The sequence is the native sequence mentioned above in relation to the use of dictionaries, directories, etc. The following information is p