what is franco arabic?

The Arabic chat alphabet, Arabizi,[1] or Arabeezi refer to the romanized alphabets for informal Arabic dialects in which Arabic script is transcribed or encoded into a combination of Latin script and Arabic numerals. These informal chat alphabets were originally used primarily by youth in the Arab world in very informal settings—especially for communicating over the Internet or for sending messages via cellular phones—though use is not necessarily restricted by age anymore and these chat alphabets have been used in other media such as advertising.[2][3]

Arabic chat alphabet - Wikipedia‘

Franco’ is the unofficial Arabic online language, which combines numbers and English letters to make up Arabic words. The utilization of ‘Franco’ is largely on WhatApp and Facebook Messenger. One simply spells out a word or phrase the same way it would pronounced verbally in Arabic. Considering there are letters in the Arabic language that have no equivalent letter in English, numbers are used to represent the missing letters. All in all, the purpose of ‘Franco’ is to substitute numbers for Arabic letters to transcribe the sentence as accurately as possible.

The Unofficial Arabic texting language: Franco - Arab America

Franco-Arabic, the popular language of communication for conversations and chats on social media sites, is increasingly being seen as a threat to the Arabic language, culture and identity. While the language is commonly used in Egypt and several other Arab countries, it faces resistance from lovers of Arab identity and culture with campaigns such as "Write Arabic" and ‘Enough Franco." A heady cocktail of Arabic and English written in the Latin script, Franco-Arabic or Franco has gained huge popularity among the youth who relate to it because of its symbols which they can adopt to Arabic. So for example, the symbol ‘3’ is used to represent the Arabic letter ‘Ayn,’ 5 for the letter ‘kha,’ 7 for ‘Ha’ and 8 for ‘Ghain’.

Purists alarmed at increasing popularity of Franco-Arabic | Arab News

Have you heard about a special form of writing Arabic, called the Arabic Chat Alphabet? It's used mostly by young people across the Arabic world, and I used it myself to learn to speak Egyptian Arabic. The Arabic chat alphabet (alternatively the Franco-Arabic alphabet, or ‘Arabizi' عربيزي), it's an alternative to the standard written Arabic that uses the Latin script. It's an interesting product of the online generation. The reason for its evolution, was that when computers and mobile phones first began to spread, it was only possible to write in the Latin script. People started to look for ways to communicate in Arabic using the Latin script, and the Arabic chat alphabet was born.

Arabic Chat Alphabet - A Cool Alternative to Written Arabic

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