[stevoski]

The author of the article needs to get in touch with a Lebanese person. Just about any Lebanese who has lived mostly in Lebanon will do.

They have a popular and simple system for writing Arabic in Latin, with numerals stepping in for certain Arabic letters.

[jhbadger]

There's also the Maltese language which is an Arabic dialect (mixed with bits of Italian for historical reasons) which is officially written in the Latin alphabet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_language

[rafram]

That’s the so-called Arabic chat alphabet, and it’s used across the Arab world. But it isn’t standardized, and everyone writes it differently.

[stavros]

Sounds like greeklish.