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Range of abjad numerals

 * Arabic: 1,000
 * Persian: 5,000
 * Pashto: 90,000
 * Urdu: 10,000
 * Sindhi: 700,000

Abjadī
The  order is not a simple historical continuation of the earlier north Semitic alphabetic order, since it has a position corresponding to the Aramaic letter samekh/semkat ס, yet no letter of the Arabic alphabet historically derives from that letter. Loss of ' was compensated for by the split of shin ש into two independent Arabic letters, ش (shīn) and ﺱ (sīn) which moved up to take the place of '. The six other letters that do not correspond to any north Semitic letter are placed at the end.

This is commonly vocalized as follows:

Another vocalization is:

This can be vocalized as:
 *  or 

Modern dictionaries and other reference books do not use the ' order to sort alphabetically; instead, the newer ' order is used wherein letters are partially grouped together by similarity of shape. The  order is never used as numerals.

Another kind of  order was used widely in the Maghreb until recently when it was replaced by the Mashriqi order.