The Jawi keyboard layout is a

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for writing the

Jawi script Jawi (; ; ; ) is a writing system used for writing several languages of Southeast Asia, such as Acehnese, Banjarese, Betawi, Magindanao, Malay, Mëranaw, Minangkabau, Tausūg, Ternate and many other languages in Southeast Asia. Jawi ...

on the Windows platform. It is based on a standard set by SIRIM (Standard Malaysia) in 2011. The layout was devised by Technical Committee in Multi-Lingual Computing at SIRIM. It was approved in 2011. The design is based on 3 principles; *the layout is based on existing Arabic keyboard layout since many Jawi characters are based on Arabic characters *Make minimal changes to the existing layout *Add feature to support Jawi As a result, the Technical Committee agree on two designs, Normal Position and Shift Position. Apart from the SIRIM approved Jawi Keyboard for Windows, a

phonetic Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds or, in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians ...

Jawi keyboard layout that is based from

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Jawi (QWERTY) that was written for

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is also available.Jawi Phonetic
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is different as it allows typing without the need of an Arabic Keyboard for a more natural typing on a normal QWERTY Keyboard.

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