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Jawi (جاوي; Acehnese: Jawoë; Kelantan-Pattani: Yawi; Malay pronunciation: [d͡ʒä.wi]) is a writing system used for writing several languages of Southeast Asia, such as Acehnese, Magindanawn, Malay, Mëranaw, Minangkabau, Tausūg, and Ternate. Jawi is based on the Arabic script, consisting of all 31 original Arabic letters, six letters ...
Jawi' (Jawi: جاوي ) is an Arabic script for writing Tausūg, Malay, Acehnese, Banjarese, Minangkabau, and several other languages in Southeast Asia. A copy of Undang-Undang Melaka ('Laws of Malacca'). The script became prominent with the spread of Islam, supplanting the earlier writing systems. The Tausugs, Malays, and other groups that ...
The Latin alphabet, known in Malay as Rumi (Roman alphabets), is prescribed by law as the official script of Malaysian Malay, and the Arabic alphabet called Jawi (or Malay script) is not legally prescribed for that purpose. Rumi is official while efforts are currently being undertaken to preserve the Jawi script and to revive its use in Malaysia.
It is the more common of the two alphabets used today to write the Malay language, the other being Jawi (a modified Arabic script). The Latin Malay alphabet is the official Malay script in Indonesia (as Indonesian), Malaysia (also called Malaysian) and Singapore, while it is co-official with Jawi in Brunei.
The use of Latin script began to expand in the fields of administration and education whereby the influence of English and Dutch literatures and languages started to penetrate and spread gradually into the Malay language. A page of Hikayat Abdullah written in Jawi script, from the collection of the National Library of Singapore.
Historically, it had previously been written using the Arabic alphabet. The script used was derived from Jawi used in writing the Malay language. The script is referred to as Sulat Sug. The Arabic script used to write Tausūg differs in some aspects from the script used for Arabic and in the Jawi script used for Malay. [16]
Terengganu Inscription Stone (Malay: Batu Bersurat Terengganu; Jawi: باتو برسورت ترڠݢانو ) is a granite stele [1] carrying Classical Malay inscription in Jawi script that was found in Terengganu, Malaysia. [2] The inscription, dated possibly to 702 AH (corresponds to 1303 CE), constituted the earliest evidence of Jawi ...
Jawi people, an Australian Aboriginal people of the Kimberley coast of Western Australia, who speak or spoke the Jawi dialect. Jawi (Javanese: ꦗꦮꦶ, romanized: jawi), a Javanese Krama (polite Javanese) word to refer to Java Island or Javanese people; see Jawi script § Etymology. Jawi script, an Arabic script developed for writing Malay ...