Yezidi

The Yezidi people are a Kurdish ethnic group who live in parts of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Their native language is Yezidi, a dialect of Kurmanji, and they have their own unique alphabet, which is based on the Arabic script. Yezidi is written from right to left, and includes 28 letters. The alphabet is mostly made up of consonants, with only four vowels (a, e, i, u). There are no capital letters, and the script is generally used for writing religious texts. Yezidi is a relatively new alphabet, having only been developed in the 19th century. It was created by Sheik Hassan of Jabal Sinjar, who is credited with standardizing the Yezidi language. The Yezidi alphabet has been used to write a number of books, including the Holy Book of the Yezidis, which contains the religious texts of the Yezidi people.