The Arabic chat alphabet, Arabizi (Arabic: عربيزي ‘Arabizi ), Arabish or Araby, (Arabic: عربي ‘Araby ), is an alphabet used to communicate in the Arabic language over the Internet or for sending messages via cellular phones when the actual Arabic alphabet is unavailable for technical reasons. It is a character encoding of Arabic to the Latin script and the Arabic numerals. Users of this alphabet have developed some special notations to transliterate some of the letters that do not exist in the basic Latin script (ASCII).
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