May
01
This article is about Persian mixed with English. For Finnish mixed with English, see Finglish.

Fingilish (Farsi + English) (also Penglish or Pinglish, Finglish, Pingilish and Fārgilisi) 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    


See also

  • Arabic chat alphabet the same idea with Arabic
  • Volapuk encoding — the same idea with Cyrillic


External links

  • fingilish.com,Web site to type Arabic script (Persian, Arabic, Azarbayjani, Urdu, Ottoman, …) using Latin keyboard
  • A web based Fingilish to Persian translator
  • Pinglish to Persian Translator
  • Tools for the Persian language: Finglish-Farsi transcriber, virtual Persian keyboard…
  • En2Fa Program site.First Fingilish into persian translator program.

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