Jawin.
/ˈdʒɑːwi/ Formerly, the Malay vernacular; now, the Malay language written in Arabic script.
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Jawi1808
Senoi1891
Jakun1906
Sakai1920
Bahasa1952
1808 Asiatick Researches 10 iii. 164 The Basa Jawi or written language of composition, is nearly the same in all [dialects].
1812 W. Marsden Gram. Malayan Lang. p. xiv Jāwī or bhā sa jāwī is..employed in writings to denote the vernacular language of the Malays, especially that of books, as distinguished from all foreign languages.
1920 R. O. Winstedt Colloquial Malay (ed. 2) 138 The Malay word spelt in Arabic characters is a puzzle to be solved by the possession of a large vocabulary. And it is impossible to draw up a logical system of Jawi spelling.
1964 M. Taib bin Osman in Wang Gungwu Malaysia iii. xv. 210 Traditional literature as known today is the literature written in the Perso-Arabic script known as Jawi.
1972 Straits Times (Malaysia) 24 Nov. 21/1 A tombstone found in the same area has inscriptions in Jawi, stating that it was erected in 1292.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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