Patterns of Arabic Romanization in Islamic Finance Corpus in Websites

Nurulasyikin Muda, Hazmi Dahlan

The objective of this paper is to look at the style of writing in romanization Arabic jargon from Islamic Finance related corpuses from the 4 top Google search. This paper use text analysis method by comparing the jargons with the ALA-LC system. The result shows twenty eight (28) jargons have been found from all of the corpuses. Some of the words are spelt with lack of ‘h’ or ‘t’ that represent the alphabet of ‘ة’ The spelling does not using the alphabet which represent the longer sound of ‘ā’,’ī’, and ‘ū’, but the corpuses tend to use the alphabet that represent the short sound of ‘a’, ‘i’, and ‘u’. Lack, additonal and wrong alphabet writing in romanization are also found in this research.