Arabic chat alphabet

The Arabic chat alphabet, also known as Arabish, Moaarab (معرب), Arabizi (عربيزي), Araby (عربي), Franco-Arabic, is an alphabet used to communicate in Arabic over the Internet or for sending messages via cellular phones when the actual Arabic alphabet is unavailable for technical reasons or otherwise more difficult to use. It is a character encoding of Arabic to the Latin script and the Arabic numerals.