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The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic
and several other languages of Asia and Africa.
It is the second-most widely used alphabetic writing
system in the world after the Latin script the second-most
widely used writing system in the world by number of
countries using it, and the third-most by number of users
after the Latin and Chinese scripts.

The Arabic script is used to write languages such as
Persian (Farsi and Dari), Malay (Jawi), Cham (Akhar Srak),
Uyghur, Kurdish, Punjabi (Shahmukhi),
Sindhi, Balti, Balochi, Pashto, Lurish, Urdu, Kashmiri,
Rohingya, Somali, Mandinka, and Mooré, among others

The fonts available in this repo are
1. Alexandria
2. Alkalami
3. Almarai
4. Amiri
5. Arabeyes
6. Aref ruqaa
7. Blaka
8. Cairo
9. Droid Kufi
10. Droid Naskh
11. El-Messiri
12. Harmattan
13. IBM Plex Sans
14. Jomhuria
15. Katibeh
16. Kufam
17. Lalezar
18. Lateef
19. Lemonada
20. Mada
21. Marhey
22. Markazi
23. Nafees
24. Paktype
25. Qahiri
26. Rakkas
27. Raqq
28. Readex Pro
29. Reem Kufi
30. Ruwudu
31. Scheherazada
32. Tajawal
33. Thabit
34. Ubuntu Arabic
35. Vibes
36. Unikurd Web
37. KACST
38. Mirza

To install woff and woff2 fonts run the slackbuild as
WEBFONTS=YES ./fonts-arabic-extra.SlackBuild

Conflicts:

This package conflicts with google-fonts and droid-fonts