al-Lughah al-Malāyūwīyah wa-Madá Taʼaththurihā bi-al-Lughah al-ʻArabīyah Lafẓan wa-Maʻnan: Mālīziyā Namūdhajan - Shumayrī, Ḥakīm Ibrāhīm; al-Muʼtamar al-Duwalī: ʻUmān wa-Duwal Janūb Sharq Āsiyā wa-al-Ṣīn: Āfāq Thaqāfīyah wa-Tārīkhīyah wa-Siyāsīyah wa-Ḥaḍārīyah (2016) (Kuwālā Lumbūr) (Kuwālā Lumbūr : Markaz Dhākirat ʻUmān, 2016)
Arabic spread through Southeast Asia and settled in the hearts of the Malays who embraced Islam and lived with it in their feeling and sensibility, so that it became their preferred new language, a source of pride, and exerted an eloquent influence upon their society as the new language of their new religion. It affected the Malay language in word and in meaning: Malay is written only in the Jawi letters, which are Arabic letters, and remains so to this day, and Arabic came to have a share and an effective role in sermons, lectures, religious lessons, transactions and legal contracts, so that one scarcely hears a lecture without Arabic words running through it. Arabic thus became present across Southeast Asia — in Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore and Patani in southern Thailand — and revived in Malaysia after some Arabic words had nearly disappeared, thanks to the Islamic movements and the migration of many Arab teachers working in its universities and schools.
Permanent citation identifier: MHF-OMANSEAASIA-030.
Conference theme (in Arabic): لغات دول جنوب شرق آسيا والصين وتأثرها باللغة العربية.
Text in Arabic; title also romanized (ALA-LC); abstract and keywords in English.
Keywords: Malay language; Arabic loanwords; Jawi script; Malaysia; Language contact; Islamisation