The Khowar alphabet is the right-to-left alphabet used for the
Khowar language. It is a modification of the Persian alphabet,
which is itself a derivative of the Arabic alphabet. According
to the Khowar Academy with 60 letters, the Khowar alphabet is
typically written in the calligraphic Nasta'liq script, whereas
Arabic is more commonly in the Naskh style. Usually, bare
transliterations of Khowar into Roman letters omit many phonemic
elements that have no equivalent in English or other languages
commonly written in the Roman alphabet. The Khowar Academy of
Pakistan has developed a number of systems with specific
notations to signify non-English sounds, but these can only be
properly read by someone already familiar with Khowar, Persian,
or Arabic for letters. The Khowar language developed during the
rule of Mehtar of Chitral State. Despite the invention of the
Khowar typewriter in 1996 by Rehmat Aziz Chitrali, Khowar
newsletters and newspapers continued to be published from
handwritten scripts by the Khowar a