Jawi
Jawi may refer to:
People and languages
- Australia:
- 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
- Asia:
- Jawi alphabet, an Arabic script developed for writing Malay and other languages in Southeast Asia, today used in a limited capacity in areas of Indonesia and Malaysia
- Jawi Peranakan, a community of Malay, South Asian, and Arab heritage concentrated in Penang and Singapore
Places
- Jawi, Penang, a town in the state of Penang, Malaysia
- Jawi (woreda), a woreda or district in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia
- Jawi temple, a 13th-century syncretic Hindu-Buddhist temple in East Java, Indonesia
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