Jawi Malay

E174705

Malay language variety historical language variety written language

Jawi Malay is a historical form of the Malay language written in the Arabic-based Jawi script, used as a key administrative and literary medium in the Malay world.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Classical Malay	1
Jawi Malay canonical	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Malay language variety ⓘ historical language variety ⓘ written language ⓘ
associatedWith	Islamization of the Malay world ⓘ Johor-Riau-Lingga Sultanate ⓘ surface form: Johor-Riau Sultanate Malacca Sultanate ⓘ Malay sultanates ⓘ
basedOn	Classical Malay ⓘ Malay ⓘ surface form: Malay language
culturalRole	carrier of Malay-Islamic literary tradition ⓘ medium of interregional communication in the Malay world ⓘ
historicalRole	administrative language in the Malay world ⓘ language of Islamic scholarship in the Malay world ⓘ language of legal documents ⓘ language of religious texts ⓘ language of royal correspondence ⓘ literary language in the Malay world ⓘ
influencedBy	Arabic language ⓘ Persian language ⓘ
languageFamily	Austronesian languages ⓘ
lexicalFeature	Islamic religious terminology ⓘ extensive Arabic loanwords ⓘ
modernDescendant	Brunei Malay in Jawi script ⓘ Standard Malay in Jawi script ⓘ
orthographicBasis	Arabic alphabet ⓘ
orthographicFeature	additional letters for Malay sounds not in Arabic ⓘ
region	Southeast Asia ⓘ
scriptType	Arabic-based script ⓘ
status	historical standard of written Malay ⓘ partly replaced by Latin-script Malay ⓘ
subfamily	Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ
subgroup	Malayic languages ⓘ
timePeriod	early modern period in Southeast Asia ⓘ pre-colonial era in the Malay world ⓘ
usedBy	Malay peoples ⓘ surface form: Malay people Muslim communities in the Malay world ⓘ
usedFor	court chronicles ⓘ fiqh and religious manuals ⓘ hikayat literature ⓘ syair poetry ⓘ trade correspondence ⓘ
usedIn	Borneo ⓘ Malay Peninsula ⓘ Malay world ⓘ Riau-Lingga ⓘ surface form: Riau-Lingga archipelago Sumatra ⓘ
writingDirection	right-to-left ⓘ
writingSystem	Jawi script ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

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

Johor Sultanate → languageOfAdministration → Jawi Malay ⓘ

Jawi script → usedForLanguage → Jawi Malay ⓘ

this entity surface form: Classical Malay