Show HN: Eskéndereyya – Learn How to Read and Write Arabic in Latin Script

Re:Show HN: Eskéndereyya – Learn How to Read and Write Arabi... by anonu on Saturday December 17, 2016 @12:57PM (#13201621)

I like this idea. But I am not sure about its ease of use. There is a much less precise but significantly speedier way to convey Arabic words using the Roman alphabet on a QWERTY keyboard using the Arabic chat alphabet. [1]. The more difficult sounds in Arabic are conveyed with numbers. For example ح is 7 - and ع is 3. In both cases the Arabic letters are visually similar to the character that represents them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_chat_alphabet

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Re:Show HN: Eskéndereyya – Learn How to Read and Write Arabi... by _samihasan_ on Saturday December 17, 2016 @01:04PM (#13201639)

The problem with this system, besides the appearance and inherent ambiguity to name a few, is that it doesn't cover essential parts of the language like "stress" and "tonality" where other writing systems do.

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