2019/07/03 by Aula Khatteb Abu-Liel, Zohar Eviatar, Bracha Nir · 1 citation
Computer Science · Psychology · #Digital Communication and Language #Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition #Speech and dialogue systems #Orthography #Linguistics #Arabic #Numeral system #Transcription (linguistics) #Consistency (knowledge bases) #Variation (astronomy) #Context (archaeology) #Arabic numerals #Written language #Psychology #History #Computer science #Artificial intelligence #Reading (process) #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.1080/17586801.2020.1814482
openalex publication_date 2019/07/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
The purpose of this paper is to explore the properties of Arabizi as a system with a ‘bottom-up’ orthography that emerged in the specific context of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC). The study focuses on the dialects spoken in the city of Nazareth and the villages surrounding it (N = 75). We examined the consistency of choice of Latin letters and Arabic numerals for Spoken Arabic (SA) phonemes from two complimentary perspectives: subjective reports and the corpus-based analysis of a unique writing sample in Arabizi, elicited texts. Our results show a consensus on conventions in the transcription process, with some expected variation reflecting differences between regional dialects. This indicated a high degree of normativization or standardisation in Arabizi orthography.