Modern Arabic Latin Script (Al-Ƹarabijà al-Latinijjà al-moƹaṣir)

The Modern Arabic Latin Script (MALS) was devised by Sheth Al-Ghamidi as a way to Latinize Arabic without the need to resort to old ways and the excessive usage of diacritics. MALS preserves all orthography of Arabic accurately without watering down or overengineering specific letters via diacritics.

Notable features

Type of writing system: alphabet
Direction of writing: left to right
Used to write: Arabic (العربية)
MALS was designed to be practical and usable in everyday writing, not just in theory.
MALS avoids any excessive usage of diacritics as they are unneeded in terms of every-day usage, and excessive diacritics can cause confusion across the Arabic dialect continuum; the further the speaker is from your dialect, the harder it is to understand them. This script fixes that problem entirely.
The script allows for a singular digraph, "th" representing the /θ/ sound, avoiding overcomplication.

Modern Arabic Latin Script

Download a script chart for the Modern Arabic Latin Script (Excel)

Notes

The red letters are used in loanwords.
Definitive article: "-" should be used after the definitive article. (the rule of definitive articles work on the loan-letters, which are in red.) "The" maintains the same spelling, only changing with "sun letters" which are letters that get pronounced and replace the "L" that's in place, which are: D, Đ, Ḍ, T, Ṭ, TH, R, S, Š, Ṣ, L, N, Č. Example: "Ash-shams" (The Sun), even though it is written as "Al-Shams" in Arabic, it is pronounced as Ash-shams. Thus with MALS, you'd write it as "Aš-šams". While "moon letters", that are: A, À, B, E, F, G, Ġ, H, Ħ, I, J, K, M, O, Ò, P, Q, U, V, X, Ž, Ƹ, remain as the article "Al" or "Il" depending on the tone and the dialect of the person speaking/writing, the system is rigid in place, but due to the dialect continuum, "Il" and "Al" are both considered accurate.
Usage of foreign letters Č, P, V: Those letters are used mostly in newly-coined terms and ones that did not get Arabized. For example, an Arabized term: "Philosophy" becomes "Fajlasofià" [fajlaˈsofɪɑ] due to the Arabization. Whereas the term: such as the word "Chewbacca" has not been Arabized, thus it becomes "Čeòbakka" [tʃeˈwabakka].
Usage of Capitalization: follows the rules of English capitalization.
Elongated vowels: Some vowels can be elongated via the use of supplemented letters with Macrons, which are:

Modern Arabic Latin Script - long vowels

These letters are not mandatory nor are they important in day-to-day conversing, which is why it is mostly used in scholarly examples, i.e. Quranic Arabic & M.S.A.

Sample text

Žamiƹ al bašar maxlòquen aħrar ò mutasaòijen fil šaraf ò al ħuqoq. Humm maòhobijen bil asbàb ò al ḍamirr ò jažijeb ƹalijehum at-taƹamul maƹ baƹḍhum fi roħ oxaòòija.

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

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