Garshunography

Garshunography is the use of "the script of one language to write utterances of another language which already has a script associated with it sociolinguistically". The phenomenon has also been called allography or heterography, although both these terms have other uses, the former to denote different shapes of the same grapheme and the latter to denote different spellings of homophones. In French, the term métagrammatisme has also been proposed. The term "garshunography" comes from Garshuni, a term of uncertain origin that refers to the writing of the Arabic language in the Syriac script.