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Early concept

Side project · Persian in Latin script

Pingilish One spelling for Persian in Latin letters, built by the people who write it

Persian is written in Latin letters all over the internet, and every writer spells it their own way. Pingilish is a crowd-sourced effort to agree on a clear reference spelling that works on an ordinary keyboard.

Home address pingilish.com key

It grew from my own enthusiasm (اشتیاق) as a Persian speaker. The venue for proposals and discussion is the work itself.

Transliteration Crowd-sourced conventions Platform design
Where it lives

The idea

The same word shows up many ways, so sounds are easy to misread and tools have little to hold on to. Pingilish aims at one predictable mapping, agreed by native and fluent speakers.

فارسی faarsi Persian
دوست doost friend
سلام salaam hello

These are illustrations, well short of a specification. The conventions are meant to be proposed and graded in public.

Where it lives

pingilish.com opens with a personal access key.

pingilish.com

Key required

The venue for proposals and discussion, as it takes shape.

Open pingilish.com

How access works

Ask for a key with the button or by email, and say who you are. It arrives in your name for a set number of days.

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