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    1. New on Design Regression today  🗞 Breaking Arabic: the creative inventiveness of Uyghur script reforms 👨‍🔬 by Yannis Haralambous ➡️ designregression.com/article/breaking-arabic (annotation below)
  1. …in reply to @rosettatype
    Most languages that use the Arabic script use it as an abjad. An exception is the Uyghur language which uses the Arabic script in a phonographic way. Uyghur even goes as far as respelling Arabic loan words and names and breaking words at the end of the line.
    1. …in reply to @rosettatype
      Yannis is on Twitter as @y_haralambous