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Jawi script was the official script for the Unfederated Malay States when they were British protectorates.
The Jawi alphabet (Tulisan Jawi) is a way to write Malay, and Indonesian, with a version of the Arabic alphabet. It is one of the official scripts in Brunei. It is used in religious and cultural administration in Malaysia.
Since decades, Jawi script has been growing rapidly among the Malay community and is associated with the mastery of the Quranic recitation. This is because most of the Jawi script uses Arabic letters in the Quran with some modification to suit the Malay pronunciation to some extents.
Jawi (Malay: { {Script/Arabic|جاوي; Achinese: Jawoë; Kelantan-Pattani: Yawi; in Malay pronounced as /d͡ʒä.wi/) is a writing system used for writing several languages of Southeast Asia, such as Acehnese, Magindanawn, Malay, Mëranaw, Minangkabau, Tausūg, and Ternate.
The Jawi script, a character system based on Arabic characters or alphabets, plays a significant role in the history of the growth of Islam in Malaysia. During the 14th century, trade interactions with Arab and Muslim traders led to the introduction of Jawi into this region.
Jawi is the orthography in which Malay has been written since the Middle Ages, when it was adapted from the Arabic script. Introduced by Muslim traders, it was adapted to Malay phonology using diacritics that modified six letters.
Up to the early 1980s, Malaysian government curriculum textbooks framed Jawi script as part of Bahasa Malaysia, a national rather than communal attribute, linguistic rather than religious.