[saylisteins]

North african here! For Moroccan arabic dialect, we mostly use latin alphabets and some numbers to replace some sounds/letters

[pythonbrad]

It looks a little bit similar to the working of the clafrica code to type in General Alphabet of Cameroonian languages.

Clafrica: Pookai2t peu2nze2e2 n*kut !

Shʉ̄pāpə̀m (Bamoun): Pookɛ́t pә́nzéé ŋkut !

[trompetenaccoun]

Very interesting. Is that to avoid confusion with standard Arabic?

[saylisteins]

see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41428987