37.3438, Software: Rumi ke Jawi Malay Transliteration Tool

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LINGUIST List: Vol-37-3438. Tue 20 Oct 2026. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 37.3438, Software: Rumi ke Jawi Malay Transliteration Tool

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Date: 20-Oct-2026
From: David [hello at rumikejawi.com]
Subject: Rumi ke Jawi Malay Transliteration Tool


Rumi ke Jawi (https://rumikejawi.com/) is a free web application for
transliterating Standard Malay between the Latin alphabet (Rumi) and
Jawi, the Arabic-based script. It looks words up in a Rumi–Jawi
dictionary of about 69,000 words (built mainly from the UKM Rumi–Jawi
word list compiled by Mohd Zamri Murah, plus Wikidata lexemes), strips
Malay affixes to find roots, and falls back to syllable-based spelling
rules for unknown words, which it highlights for checking. It also
offers Jawi to Rumi conversion, an on-screen Jawi keyboard, a name
speller and a printable worksheet generator, plus a Latin to Arab
Pegon converter for Javanese and Sundanese whose conventions and
sources are documented on the page. Licence: free to use with no
registration; the software is not open source. Spelling follows DBP
publications, but it is not an official DBP tool.

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Writing Systems

Subject Language(s): Javanese (jav, java1254)
                     Standard Malay (zsm, stan1306)
                     Sundanese (sun, sund1252)


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