Polish Abdjad (Polski abdżad)

The Polish abdjad, or Polski abdżad, was devised by Szymon Wiczyński, a Polish student, as an alternative way to writing Polish using the Arabic script. He designed it after learning that Tatar people in Belarus write Belarusian with a version of the Arabic script, and he is very interested in linguistics and likes to create various conlangs and conscripts for his own entertainment.

Notable features

Type of writing system: abjad
Direction of writing: right to left in horizontal lines
Used to write: Polish
Letters in black are hard consonants; the red ones are soft consonants; the green are vowels / semivowels / nasal vowels, and the blue ones are other symbols / diacritic symbols
Soft consonant, unlike hard consonants, do not need to have the ِ (kasra) symbol after them to make them soft in the word,
To double the [a] / [ɑ], [i] or [u] is written: اِ, ىِ / ێـ ِ, وِ,
There is no difference in length between the ا (alif) and the ِ (fatha) signs, like in Arabic,
If there is a soft consonant, which could replace the hard consonant in a word, it is wrong not to use it where it is necessary,
The order of these letters is mainly based on the shape of the letter.

Polish abdjad

Sample text in the Polish abdjad

Sample text in Romanabic

Transliteration

Wszyscy ludzie rodzą się wolni i równi w swojej godności i prawach. Są obdarzeni rozumem i sumieniem i powinni postępować wobec siebie w duchu braterstwa.

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

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