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Jawi
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People and languages
Australia
Also spelled Djaui, Dyawi, or Chowie:
Jawi dialect
, a nearly extinct Australian aboriginal language
Jawi people
, an Australian Aboriginal people of the Kimberley coast of Western Australia, who speak or spoke the Jawi dialect
Southeast Asia
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 and other languages in Southeast Asia
Kelantan-Pattani Malay
, sometimes called Jawi due to being written in Jawi script
Places
Jawi (woreda)
, a woreda or district in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia
Jawi, Penang
, a town in the state of Penang, Malaysia
Jawi (state constituency)
, state constituency in Penang, Malaysia
Jawi temple
, a 13th-century syncretic Hindu-Buddhist temple in East Java, Indonesia