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Babel

The multilingual framework to localize LaTeX, LuaLaTeX, XeLaTeX

Egyptian Arabic

This page offers basic guidance on typesetting a LaTeX document in the Egyptian Arabic language using the Arabic script.

Support with ini locale file

Here is a minimal sample file with egyptianarabic as the main language, with luatex.

\documentclass[egyptianarabic]{article}

\usepackage[provide=*,bidi=basic]{babel}

\babelfont{rm}[Renderer=Harfbuzz]{FreeSerif}

\begin{document}

Local name $=$ مصرى

\end{document}