Arabic-L:LING:e-chat transliteration

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Date:  08 May 2002
From:Sanaa Ghanem <sanaa at arabacademy.com>
Subject:e-chat transliteration

This transliteration is gaining in popularity to the extent that street 
signs are starting to appear in Mohandisin, Cairo using it!  I would 
like to stress that this is not an Egyptian transliteration but an Arab 
one and is used by a number of Arab web sites.  The system is not fool 
proof.  There is no distinction between short and long vowels.  No 
distinction between siin and saad.  However, it is there to stay and it 
has served to meet the needs of the youth who used the chatrooms to chat 
in Arabic using Latin script.  We, at the Arab Academy, have chosen to 
base our transcription on this new exciting one but adapt it to meet the 
needs of our students.  We chose this system for 3 reasons:
1. It is already used, acclaimed and recognized by users who form the 
majority of Internet Arab users, namely the youth.
2. It does not rely on special characters for all its characters are 
found on the Arabic keyboard.
3. The resemblance between the choice of letters and the digit chosen to 
represent it is quite interesting as well as that of the dot. 3 for 3ayn 
and 3' for ghayn (the ' represents the dot).
 
To visit our system visit:
http://arabacademy.com/transcript_e.htm
 
Sanaa Ghanem
Arab Academy

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