, and  Panjabi (in Pakistan);  Arwi (in Sri Lanka and Southern India),  Chinese ,  Uyghur (in China and Central Asia), Kazakh ,  Uzbek and  Kyrgyz (all in Central Asia),  Azerbaijani (in Iran),  Kurdish (in Iraq and Iran). In Africa, the Arabic alphabet is used to write  Mandinka in West Africa and  Swahili in East Africa. In Europe, the Arabic alphabet