Twitter Adds Language Setting to Support Feminine Form of Arabic

The social network is raising awareness with a hashtag-triggered emoji

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Twitter added a new language setting to support the feminine form of Arabic.

Users who select this setting will be addressed in the feminine form: Tweet will be غرّدي instead of غرّد, while Explore will be إستكشفي rather than إستكشف.

To use the new setting, people can go to “Settings and privacy,” select “Accessibility, display and languages,” select “Languages and go to “Display language,” where they can switch to “Arabic (feminine).”

The social network is raising awareness of the update with a new campaign that includes a hashtag-triggered

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