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Jawi

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Jawi may refer to:

People and languages

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  • 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
  • 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

Places

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  • Jawi (woreda), a woreda or district in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia
  • Jawi, Penang, a town in the state of Penang, Malaysia
  • Jawi temple, a 13th-century syncretic Hindu-Buddhist temple in East Java, Indonesia