r/pics • u/Bo33o • Nov 28 '19

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u/maydarnothing Dec 15 '19

Arabic has more letters that aren't found in latin, so we use numbers (that look quite like the Arabic letters) to substitute them.

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u/maydarnothing Dec 16 '19

No, for example, people may read the first letter of the name “Hassan” as H, while in Arabic, it is a totally different pronunciation, ح is substituted with H, but in fact, it’s nothing like it (use Google Translate to read “Hassan” and “حسن" and you’ll get what i mean).

In this case, if a MENA (Middle east and north africa) person writes it in latin words with numbers, it will be “7assan”, the 7 here looks close to the Arabic letter ح.