AMMAN — When e-mailing, texting or even writing on her Facebook page, Hala Hamodeh rarely uses Arabic or English. She uses Arabizi, which is Roman character-based Arabic language slang. Hamodeh, an ...

20 April 2011 JEDDAH: Arabizi, a term that describes a system of writing Arabic in English, is now more popular than ever, especially online. Parents and teachers are becoming more concerned over the ...

The banter is a form of speech that mixes Arabic with English. It is widely used among Jordan’s Western-educated elites, drawing ire from language purists and exposing a widening social and economic ...

Arabizi, sometimes called A-pop, is more than a genre. It’s a cultural remix born from the Arab diaspora, where multiple languages like English, Arabic, and French flow in the same sentence, and oud ...

Google, along with the rest of the Internet, may be partly responsible for how ubiquitous English has become, but Google is also trying to counterbalance that by making it easier for people to ...

Millions of people across the Arab world use a strange mix of numbers and letters to communicate online — and most outsiders have no idea what they’re reading. Known as “Arabizi,” this system was born ...

Google Apps has made a big splash in the enterprise market, with businesses moving their apps to the web. But even as emails, calendars, IM and online storage have increasingly gone cloud-bound, the ...

Writing Arabic using English numbers and letters raises eyebrows among Arab elders Dubai: As the younger generation in some corners of the Arab world becomes more inclined to use the English language ...

"Give me an allo demain, ok habibi?" I was a left a little baffled when I overheard that phrase. I am a generation-Arabizi product par excellence, but surely the above phrasing was going a little ...

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