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Introduction

Penglish, Pinglish or Fingilish or fargelisi (a portmanteau word formed from Persian + English, or Farsi + English) is a term used to describe the way Persian words are written using the Latin alphabet (as opposed to the Persian alphabet), or generally the casual romanization of Persian words popularized after computers, emailing and online chat became ubiquitous. This type of writing is commonly used in online chat, emails and SMS. It developed and spread due to a lack of software supporting Persian in the past, and due to a lack of knowledge about the software that was available. Although Parsi/Farsi/Persian is supported in recent Microsoft Windows OS, there are still many cases where Perso-Arabic can not be used and there is a need for an alternative way to write persian.( i.e. Persian with English alphabet).Fingilish, if standardized, can be used in such cases more efficiently.

Initially there were no strict rules for conversion into Pingilish or how words were Romanized, and the way of writing Pingilish varied greatly by accent. More recently a standard called Desphilic script has been introduced. Desphilic script can be used to officially transliterate from all Persian language and related dialects into character-set of ordinary English keyboard and also accepts Uni-Pers characters (Ä,Š,Ž,Ü). Unipers is a standard, defining an extended roman alphabet for Persian language.

For example, the Persian word درود ("hello") is written "Dorood". (Desphilic: DorOd)

there are some software to help transliterate from Penglish to Perso-Arabic and vice versa. For example Google has added a page to its Google Transliteration set which can be used to transliterate from penglish into Perso-Arabic script.There are also communities and message groups for fingilish in some famous websites like Facebook.

Equivalency of letters

The table below shows how the Latin alphabet is used to transliterate the Persian language.

Table of equivalency of letters in fingilish

Fingilish keyboard

There also exist trials and standards to help Fingilish users and provide them a more convenient way to write Persian using roman alphabet. Because some Persian alphabet letters do not exist in English, a Persian Keyboard(PArsi keyboard or PArsic keyboard) has been invented which provides Fingilish users with additional characters like which can be used as counterparts for .

See also

• Romanization_of_Persian
• Desphilic
• Perso-Arabic_script
• Uni-Pers

External links

• fingilish.net,First Web site to type Arabic script (Persian, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Urdu, Ottoman, ...) using Latin keyboard Type Latin and get Arabic / Farsi Letters.
• A web based Pingilish to Persian translator
• Pingilish to Persian Translator
• Tools for the Persian language: Pingilish-Persian transcriber, virtual Persian keyboard...
• behnevis.com: Interactive web based Persian transliterator
• eMonshi.com: Interactive web based Persian transliterator
• En2Fa Program site.First Pingilish into persian translator program.
• The New Arabic keyboard Type Latin and get Arabic Letters.
• Desphilic Script

• Persian orthography
• Arabic romanization