

Arabic speakers have taken different stances to using Arabizi.

Arabizi is a widely used alternative for the Arabic script in computer-mediated contexts (CMC) and social networking sites, which has emerged as a result of the Arabic script being unsupported in technological tools and Internet resources. Allehaiby King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present a sociolinguistic analysis of the Romanization of the Arabic Script phenomenon better known as Arabizi. Obviously such investigation must examine a large body of data involving mixed sexes and sometimes female samples too.Īrabizi: An Analysis of the Romanization of the Arabic Script from a Sociolinguistic Perspective Wid H. The paper conclude that further research should continue so that we may investigate and analyse the features of Latinized Arabic at all levels of linguistics.
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Further, the students use code mixing and code switching with English language. Another finding is that Latinized Arabic language has its own orthographic system. The findings indicate that the students are using new variety of Arabic language by writing it in English script when they chat in the electronic communication. The data for the paper was collected from voluntary students’ electronic conversation. In addition, it investigates the linguistic and sociolinguistic issues of the Latinized Arabic on the basis of analysis of the language used in students’ writings in the electronic communication. Like many languages of the worlds due to electronic communications the change is visible in Arabic too and consequently we have a variety that many be labelled as the ‘Latinized Arabic’, The paper endeavours to examine the Latinized Arabic language and discusses the impact of electronic communication on Arabic language script among Saudi students. The new electronic communications increasingly induce the language change.
