Rumi

E147525

Rumi is the Latin-based writing system used for the Malay language, in contrast to the traditional Arabic-derived Jawi script.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Rumi canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (33)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Latin script–based orthography
writing system
alsoKnownAs Rumi orthography
Rumi script
associatedWith Romanization of Malay
characterSet Latin letters A–Z with diacritics for Malay phonemes
contrastWith Jawi script
surface form: Jawi
dominantScriptFor Malay
surface form: Malay language
historicalRelation modern replacement of traditional Jawi script in many contexts
languageWritten Malay language
officialStatusIn Brunei Darussalam
surface form: Brunei

Indonesia
Malaysia
Singapore
replaced Jawi as the primary script for Malay in many domains
scriptCodeContext uses basic Latin letters with additional orthographic conventions for Malay sounds
scriptFamily Latin
scriptOrigin Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
standardizedFor Indonesian
surface form: Bahasa Indonesia

Malay
surface form: Bahasa Malaysia

Bruneian Malay
surface form: Brunei Malay
usedBy Malay-speaking communities
usedFor education in Malay
government documents in Malay
mass media in Malay
writing the Malay language
usedIn Brunei Darussalam
surface form: Brunei

Indonesia
Malaysia
Singapore
southern Thailand
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystemType Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Malay scriptVariant Rumi
Rumi Carter givenName Rumi