The word Jawi (جاوي) is a shortening of the term in Arabic: الجزائر الجاوي, romanized: Al-Jaza'ir Al-Jawi, lit.'Java Archipelago', which is the term … See more

Prior to the onset of Islamisation, the Pallava script, Nagari, and old Sumatran scripts were used in writing the Malay language. This is … See more

Today, Jawi is one of the official scripts of Brunei. In Malaysia, it is used for religious and cultural administration in the states of Terengganu See more

• De Casparis, J. G. (29 November 1975). Indonesian Paleography. BRILL. pp. 70–71. ISBN 9004041729.
• Hudson, Herbert Henry (1892). See more

The script became prominent with the spread of Islam, supplanting the earlier writing systems. The Malays held the script in high … See more

• 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 … See more

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• Transliteration of Rumi to Jawi See more