Jawi

Jawi may refer to:

People and languages

Australia

Also spelled Djaui, Dyawi, or Chowie:

• 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

Southeast Asia

• 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
  • Kelantan-Pattani Malay, sometimes called Jawi due to being written in Jawi script

Places

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