The alphabet is first used to write text in Arabic, most particularly the Qurʼan, the sacred book of Islam. by means of the spread of Islam, it come to be used to write many languages of many language families including, at various times, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Baloch, Malay; Fulfulde-Pular, Hausa, and Mandinka (all in West Africa); Swahili (in East...