This section is under construction.

Here we will look at the history of the Persian alphabet and have links to older Persian alphabets.

The current Persian script is based on the Arabic alphabet, but it has many differences. There are some different letters, and the sounds of the letters are different. Also the Arabic alphabet draws a few of the letters differently. This creates problems in online Persian writing, especially.

For those of you who are somehow distressed that the Persian alphabet is based on the Arabic, just think, the Arabic alphabet is based on an older Aramaic alphabet. Also, Persians really took this alphabet and made it their own. Probably because this is an attractive alphabet. Just look at those shapely letters.