Fingilish (Farsi + English) (also Penglish, Fenglish, Pinglish, Fargilisi or Fingilisi) 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 "salam". 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.

[edit] See also

• Romanization of Persian
• Persian alphabet
• Persian phonology
• Transliteration
• Arabic chat alphabet the same idea with Arabic
• Volapuk encoding the same idea with Cyrillic

[edit] External links

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