How arabs write text messages
Although it's quite possible to switch a mobile phone to work in arabic, many arabs write text messages in arabic using european letters. There are a few arabic letters that do not have a european equivalent: arabs use numbers to represent these letters.
The following table gives a summary of these letters.
| Arabic SMS letters | ||
| digit | meaning | |
| 2 | hamza | ء |
| 3 | ain | ع |
| 3' | ghin | غ |
| 6 | taa | ط |
| 6' | zaa | ظ |
| 7 | hah | ح |
| 9 | saad | ص |
| 9' | daad | ض |
Mike Green 26Jul2014