Fingilish

Fingilish ("Farsi" + English) (also Penglish, Fenglish, Pinglish, Fargilisi or Fingilisi) is a term used to describe the way Persian words are written in Latin alphabet. This type of writing is commonly used in online chat, emails and SMS.

For example, the Persian word سلام ("hello") is written "salaam". The use of this type of writing spreads due to the lack of knowledge and/or proper software supporting Persian in the past.

Although there are no strict rules for conversion into fingilish or how words are romanized, the table below represents how latin alphabets are primarily used.The way of writing fingilish greatly varies by accent.

Persian	Fingilish	Persian	Fingilish	Persian	Fingilish
ا،آ	a,aa	ژ	j,jh,zh	گ	g
ب	b	س	s,c	ل	l
پ	p	ش	sh	م	m
ت	t	ص	s,c,s'	ن	n
ث	s,c	ض	z,x	و	v,w,oo,ou
ج	j	ط	t,t'	ه	h
چ	ch	ظ	z,x'	ی	y,i,j
ح	h,h'	ع	a,ea,ae,e`,a`
خ	kh,x	غ	gh,gh'
د	d	ف	f,ph
ذ	z,z'	ق	gh
ر	r	ک	k,c

ee also

* Romanization of Persian
* Persian alphabet
* Persian phonology
* Transliteration
*Arabic chat alphabet the same idea with Arabic
*Volapuk encoding the same idea with Cyrillic

External links

* [http://fingilish.com fingilish.com,Web site to type Arabic script (Persian, Arabic, Azarbayjani, Urdu, Ottoman, ...) using Latin keyboard ]
* [http://bitaweb.com/fa/farsiNegar.html A web based Fingilish to Persian translator]
* [http://www.pinglish.org Pinglish to Persian Translator]
* [http://www.farsiabzar.com Tools for the Persian language: Finglish-Persian transcriber, virtual Persian keyboard...]
* [http://en2fa.blogspot.com/ En2Fa Program site.First Fingilish into persian translator program.]
* [http://emonshi.com/ Another translator.]