![]() ![]() I lived in Malaysia for 5 months and attended Malay classes, but no Jawi script was used, and it is not used on any government form or website. Any student of classical Malay will have to study the Jawi script. It is not taught in regular schools today (other than being introduced as the older form of script), but is still taught in religious schools in certain parts of the country – it still has some use for religious or cultural purposes. Jawi script (based on a modified Arabic alphabet) entered the Malay archipelago during the spread of Islam around CE 1000 and became widespread after 1300. They do not present a major problem for most readers, as they recognize that one uses the Malaysia spelling convention and one uses the Indonesian one, but I don’t think it is any more different than the British and American spelling conventions (eg, “plow” v. There are still differences (eg, “water” is spelled “air” in Malaysia but “ayer” in Indonesia). Since the Dutch and British romanized the language separately, many different spelling conventions evolved during the 19th century, but since independence, Indonesia and Malaysia have been reforming their spelling conventions so that they are more similar or the same. They changed over to Rumi during the early European colonial period in the late 1700s – early 1800s (about 200 years ago). On Mon Aug 17th 2015 at 05:27:46 did they change over? The map seems a bit dated. It also shows Malaysia using Roman script, but it “should” have a dot to indicate that there is some lingering use of Arabic script in Malaysia and Indonesia (if not just for historical and religious/cultural reasons). Or alternate syllabaries (such as “Zhuyin” in Taiwan) are used in conjunction with other writing systems. ![]() Japanese is more accurate as they are a mix of syllabary and ideograph, and the dots in SE Asia are good too, as they show that the language is now written in one script (ie, Roman alphabet), but other writing systems were used previously (as in the Philippines). ![]() That one looks like a slightly more accurate map, but Inuit get the shaft, not because they are not mentioned but because they are not in a separate colour. For example, why are Cyrillic, Greek and Roman alphabets kept separate, but Thai is linked with Hindi – which I see as much more different.Ībagond’s replacement map is slightly more accurate, but still did find a map that seemed more sophisticated: It groups more than a dozen distinct South Asian scripts together in orange, while Roman and Cyrillic are clearly distinguished, even though they’re both just fairly close derivatives of Greek.Īgree with this. On Mon Aug 17th 2015 at 05:04:49 alphabet map is Eurocentric. It becomes the most common way to print Roman letters and still is. Unlike Gutenberg, who used heavy Gothic letters, printers in Italy, like Nicolas Jenson and Aldus Manutius, modelled their lower-case letters on humanist handwriting and upper-case letters on Trajan’s column. ![]() In the late 1400s, the printing press came to Italy. In the early 1400s, humanists in Florence modelled their handwriting on Charlemagne’s. It looks just like lower-case letters – because that is what it will become. In the 800s, Charlemagne made Carolingian minuscule the common way to write in western Europe. It was Alcuin’s new and improved form of uncial, easier to write, easier to read. Smoother than papyrus, it changed the shape of letters, making them smaller, more rounded and requiring fewer strokes, a style called uncial. They wrote U as V.īy 300, parchment was common. Romans had borrowed Y and Z from Greek to write Greek words. There was an X, but it seems it did not appear on Trajan’s column.īy +113, when Trajan’s column was put up in Rome, letters had their present-day form. If we repeat X two times, we have XXX.The Roman alphabet from Trajan’s column in 113. If we write X and then repeat it, we have XX. Do not be fooled by the word repeat, which means "do again". ![]()
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