Brahui (in  Pakistan );  Kashmiri ,  Sindhi ,  Balti , 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