• acrylic,  IF,  moleskine

    Primitive – IF


    Mari Tulis Jawi | Let’s Write Jawi
    Acrylic on Moleskine


    Nisah Haron noticed the missing dot in my ‘Jim’ alphabet. Here’s the corrected version. I swear I had the dot in pencil before burnishing it with permanent marker! Oh, malunya hati ini!

    Jawi is the primitive writing scripts for the Malay Language. It was adapted when Islam arrived in southeast Asia during the 14th century and was the dominant writing in the Malay world. However, it was replaced by the Latin alphabet in the 17th century, under influence from the Dutch and British.

    Today, the use of Jawi Malay scripts is considered to be an endangered script. It is mainly used for Islamic religious documents only.