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  2. Jawi script - Wikipedia

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    Letters with no initial and middle forms adopt either isolated or final form, because they cannot be joined with suffixing letter. (ا ‎, د ‎, ذ ‎, ر ‎, ز ‎, و ‎, ۏ ‎) The letter hamzah may also appear in its three-quarter form " ء" (hamzah tiga suku), above alif "أ", below alif "إ" or housed (above ya "ئ" or wau "ؤ"). [e]

  3. Ulu scripts - Wikipedia

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    The Rencong script (Dutch: Rèntjong-schrift) is another well-known naming system. "Rencong" is thought to be derived from the Old Malay word mèncong , which means oblique or italics. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] It could also be derived from the word runcing ('sharp'), as this script family was originally written with a sharp knife tip. [ 10 ]

  4. Malay orthography - Wikipedia

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    The Malay alphabet has a phonemic orthography; words are spelled the way they are pronounced, with a notable defectiveness: /ə/ and /e/ are both written as E/e.The names of the letters, however, differ between Indonesia and rest of the Malay-speaking countries; while Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore follow the letter names of the English alphabet, Indonesia largely follows the letter names of ...

  5. Malaysian Malay - Wikipedia

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    Malaysian Malay (Malay: Bahasa Melayu Malaysia) or Malaysian (Bahasa Malaysia) [7] – endonymically within Malaysia as Standard Malay (Bahasa Melayu piawai) or simply Malay (Bahasa Melayu, abbreviated to BM) – is a standardized form of the Malay language used in Malaysia and also used in Brunei Darussalam and Singapore (as opposed to the variety used in Indonesia, which is referred to as ...

  6. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.

  7. Malay grammar - Wikipedia

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    Malay grammar is the body of rules that describe the structure of expressions in the Malay language (Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore) and Indonesian (Indonesia and Timor Leste). This includes the structure of words , phrases , clauses and sentences .

  8. Indonesian-Malaysian orthography reform of 1972 - Wikipedia

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    The Za'aba system uses the letter ĕ to stand for /ə/ while letter e stands for the /e/ sound. The Malay language shows a higher frequency of /ə/ compared to /e/ , thus the Za'aba style was not economical in terms of the time taken for writing, quite apart from the fact that the text was full of diacritics.

  9. History of the Malay language - Wikipedia

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    Proto-Malayic is the language believed to have existed in prehistoric times, spoken by the early Austronesian settlers in the region. Its ancestor, the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language that derived from Proto-Austronesian, began to break up by at least 2000 BCE as a result possibly by the southward expansion of Austronesian peoples into the Philippines, Borneo, Maluku and Sulawesi from the ...