Download Nastaleeq Keyboard plugin 1.3 – Descargar

Nastaleeq (Nastaliq) plugin for Multiling O Keyboard. This is not a standalone app, please install OKeyboard together with this plugin.

Instruction:

1. Install this plugin and Multiling O keyboard.
2. Run O Keyboard and follow the installation instructions.
3. Slide the space bar to change the language.

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Wikipedia:

Nastaʿlīq (also anglicized as Nastaleeq; in Persian: نستعلیق nastaʿlīq) is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Perso-Arabic script, and traditionally the dominant style of Persian calligraphy. It was developed in Iran in the 8th and 9th centuries. It is sometimes used to write Arabic-language text (where it is known as Taʿliq) and is mainly used for titles and headings, but its use has always been more popular in the Persian, Turkic and South Asian spheres of influence. Nastaʿlīq has been (and still is) widely practiced in Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan for written poetry and as a form of art. However, it is more difficult to read than Naskh.

A less elaborate version of Nastaʿlīq serves as the preferred style for writing Persian, Kashmiri, Punjabi and Urdu, and it is often used alongside Naskh for Pashto. Nastaʿlīq was historically used to write Ottoman Turkish, where it became known as tâlik (not to be confused with a completely different Persian style, also called taʿliq; to distinguish the two, Ottomans referred to the latter as ta’liq-i qadim = old ta ‘liq).

Nastaʿlīq is the core script of the post-Sasanian Persian writing tradition and is equally important in the areas under its cultural influence. The languages ​​of Afghanistan (Dari, Uzbek, Turkmen, etc.), Pakistan (Punjabi, Urdu, Kashmiri, Saraiki, etc.), India (Urdu, Kashmiri, Rekhta) and the Turkic Uighur language of the Chinese province of Xinjiang rely on Nastaʿlīq. Under the name ta’liq (lit. “suspending [script]”), it was also loved by Ottoman calligraphers who developed the Diwani (divanî) and Ruqah (rık’a) styles from it.

Nastaʿlīq is among the most fluid calligraphy styles of the Arabic alphabet. It has short verticals without serifs and long horizontal lines. It is written with a piece of trimmed reed with a 5–10 mm (0.20–0.39 in) tip, called a “qalam” (“pen”, in Arabic and Persian “قلم”), and carbon ink called “davat .” The tip of a qalam is usually split in the middle to facilitate absorption of ink.

Two important forms of Nastaʿlīq panels are the Chalipa and the Siah-Masq. A Chalipa (“cross”, in Persian) panel usually consists of four diagonal half-lines (half lines) of poetry, clearly indicating a moral, ethical or poetic concept. Siah-Masq (“inked drill”) panels communicate via composition and form rather than content. In the Siah-Masq, a few letters or words (sometimes even one) repeat almost the entire panel. The content is thus of less importance and not easily accessible.

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