NSTletters: The earliest inscription of language in the Jawi/Arabic script was found in the Terengganu stone tablet inscription or “Batu Bersurat Terengganu” of 1303 CE, that also indicated the early arrival of Islam in Peninsular Malaysia.
Malay language was first used in the first millennia as old Malay, as part of the Austronesian language family. It was also used in the ancient Malay kingdoms of Langkasuka and Gangga Negara of the second millennia, most probably using the Kawi and Rencong scripts, some linguistic researchers say.-NSTPTHE Malay language was first used in the first millennia as old Malay, as part of the Austronesian language family.
There are some 10,000 classical Malay Jawi manuscripts worldwide on a variety of subjects, which include science and mathematics. Traders, envoys, scholars and foreign colonists regularly traversed the Malay Archipelago where Malay was the lingua franca. Nevertheless, the heyday of Malay Language in the Jawi script would soon gradually diminish in importance towards the end of the 20th century and early 21st century.
Earlier on, to a certain extent these moves were viewed with much suspicion by the Malays as among the subtle means to Christianise the Malays as the Romanised script was part of the Christian Latin culture. As the Romanised Malay script reigned supreme, the Jawi script was reduced to an inferior role taught only in Islamic studies. This gives the misconception that learning the Malay Jawi is akin to learning the Islamic religion and thus, that people might get converted to Islam in mastering Malay Jawi.
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