injilizi
EnglishThe word, broken down.
إِنْجِليزِيّ reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A glottal stop carried under an alif, with a short 'i'.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
A soft 'j' (a hard 'g' in Egyptian Arabic). One dot inside.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A plain 'z'. Like rāʾ, with one dot above.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
What does injilizi mean in Arabizi?
injilizi is how you write إِنْجِليزِيّ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “English”. No numbers in this one; it spells out in plain Latin letters.
New to the chat alphabet? See how every letter and number maps: the Arabizi → Arabic guide. Got it the other way round, with Arabic script to convert? That is the Arabic to Arabizi converter.
The keystrokes, in order.
On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 12 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.
It sits in the travel & places lesson of our Arabic typing practice course, if you would rather drill it next to the words it turns up with.
Practice typing this word →- 01Shift+Y→إ
- 02Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 03K→ن
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05[→ج
- 06Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 07G→ل
- 08D→ي
- 09.→ز
- 10Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 11D→ي
- 12Shift+`→ـّshadda