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Language Comparison: Jawi vs Yucatec Maya
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Aspect | Jawi | Yucatec Maya |
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Family | Arabic script derivative | Mayan |
Speakers | Used by speakers of Malay and related Austronesian languages | Approximately 800,000 |
Features | An Arabic script adapted for writing the Malay language and several other languages in Southeast Asia, incorporates additional letters to accommodate phonemes not present in Arabic | A Mayan language spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula, known for its glottalized consonants and vowel length distinctions. It preserves many features of the ancient Mayan script, though now written in Latin script |
Countries | Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Singapore, and southern Thailand | Mexico (Yucatán, Campeche, Quintana Roo), Belize, and northern Guatemala |
Writing System | Extended Arabic script | Latin script |
Tonal | No | No, but vowel length and stress are phonemic |
Grammatical Cases | No, Malay as written in Jawi follows the grammatical structure of standard Malay | No, but uses a complex system of affixes to convey grammatical relations |
Derived From | Arabic script, with modifications to represent the sounds of Malay | Classical Mayan, with significant historical continuity from the language of the ancient Maya civilization |
Loanwords | From Arabic, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Dutch, and English | From Spanish, especially in modern contexts |
Dialects | Used across various dialects of Malay and related languages, with local variations in usage and additional letters for regional sounds | Relatively homogeneous, but regional variants exist in pronunciation and vocabulary across the Yucatán Peninsula |
Alphabets | ا (‘alif), ب (ba), ت (ta), ث (tha), ج (jim), ح (ha), خ (kha), د (dal), ذ (dhal), ر (ra), ز (zai), س (sin), ش (shin), ص (sad), ض (dad), ط (ta), ظ (dha), ع (‘ain), غ (ghain), ف (fa), ق (qaf), ك (kaf), ل (lam), م (mim), ن (nun), و (wau), ه (ha), ي (ya) | A, B, Ch, D, E, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, S, T, Ts, U, W, X, Y |
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