The Arabic script is a writing system used for writing several languages of Asia and Africa, such as Arabic, dialects of Mandinka, Central Kurdish, Luri, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, and others. Even until the 16th century, it was used to write some texts in Spanish. It is the second-most widely used writing system in the world by the number of countries using it and the third by the number of users, after Latin and Chinese characters. The Arabic script has the ISO 15924 codes Arab and 160 Arabic callingraphy thought about warn-in-a-pice in urdu.