Romanizes automatically as you type · Jawi (Perso-Arabic) → Latin script
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Type Jawi (جاوي) in Jawi (Perso-Arabic) and get the instant romanized Latin script version — plus an English translation. No button, no wait.
Jawi (Perso-Arabic) (Original)
هلو، آپ آڤ ڪهبر?
Romanized (Latin script)
Helo, apa khabar?
جاوي
Jawi is the Arabic-script writing system for Malay, historically used across maritime Southeast Asia. It remains an official script in Brunei, a co-official script in Malaysia, and is used for Islamic religious texts across the region.
Researchers of Islamic Southeast Asian history, Malaysian and Bruneian government officials, Islamic studies scholars, and heritage language enthusiasts preserving traditional Malay writing.
Jawi is spoken by 33M+ people, primarily in Southeast Asia. It uses the Jawi (Perso-Arabic) writing system, which is written right to left.
Romanization (also called transliteration) converts Jawi (Perso-Arabic) characters to their equivalent Latin (Roman) letter representations. This allows speakers of Latin-script languages to read and pronounce Jawi text without knowing the Jawi (Perso-Arabic) script.
This tool uses Google's neural romanization engine to convert Jawi text to Latin script in real time. The romanization follows standard transliteration conventions and is updated automatically 800ms after you stop typing — no button click required.