Nastaliq

Rarity: Uncommon

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What Wikipedia says

Nastaliq is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Persian and sometimes Arabic scripts, and is used for several significant Indo-Iranian languages, predominantly Persian, Urdu, Kurdish, Pashto, Balochi, Punjabi (in Pakistan), Kashmiri and Saraiki.

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Image: فرزان کرمانی نژاد at Persian Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.