Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com FM 34-54 Letters 17, 19, and 21 are the base forms for letters 18, 20, and 22 respectively; the added diacritic for all three is high dot >. Letters 23 and 24 have approximately the same base form with high dot > on letter 23 and high double dot on letter 24. Letters 25 and 26 have the same base form. Letter 25 uses flag on its initial and medial forms and hamza sign А > on its final and alone forms. Letter 26 uses double flag > on all its forms and hamza sign ё > on its final and alone forms. Letter 31 is the base form, and letter 32 uses high double dot . For grammatical reasons, letter 32 is not used initially or medially.
Figure G-9 gives a sample of printed Arabic. Note the frequent occurrences of letter 1 and letter 27: the definite article at word beginnings. Remember, words begin on the right. The seventh line from the top, for instance, has four obvious occurrences and two other occurrences in modified forms that have not been discussed here. There are 18 occurrences of letter 32, at least one occurrence in every line except lines 9 and 11 and four occurrences in lines 3 and 8. G-16 SAMPLES OF ARABIC AND PERSIAN