STANDARISASI SISTEM TULISAN JAWI DI DUNIA MELAYU: Sebuah Upaya Mencari Standar Penulisan yang Baku Berdasarkan Aspek Fonetis
Abstract: Since his arrival in
the Malay Archipelago, Islam brings together Arabic or Jawi as a system of
writing systems in the Malay language. This writing system using Arabic script
known as Jawi.
The pronouncing of
the term Jawi
for letters is closely related to the designation of Jawi used by the Arabs, especially in Mecca against the
Malay and Indonesian
nation to this
day. The term
Jawi is an adjective
that means people
coming from Java or
Java Island. Arab
writers in the classical era,
including Ibn Battuta in his book Al-Rihlah
called the island of Sumatra as Al-Jawah. Therefore, the Arabs concluded
Malays and Javanese as a nation of Jawi
and Malay writing
that uses the Arabic
alphabet was called
by writing letters or Jawi.Currently, there are at least three terms to
refer to this article. Besides known as Jawi writing in Malaysia and Brunei,
this paper is also known by the Arabic term
Malay in Palembang
and Sumatra region.
While on the
island of Java, called the letter Pegon or Arabic
Pegon. Even for Pegon letter only
applies to Arabic/Jawi or the Java
language, but this phenomenon remains that there is no uniformity of the
term/name for this article. Uniformity of terms may be obtained if there is a
standard of Jawi writing itself. Because in reality there are
a variety of Jawi writings. Methods which are true and can be used as a handle,
could not be ascertained unless
acquired scientific standards
for spelling and
writing system. Speaking of writing/script then it means talking about
the sound (letter). Sounds called phonemes in terms of linguistic/Linguistics.
Science that examines the phoneme is called Science or Phonology Phonetics. This paper
attempts to analyze
the Jawi writing
from the perspective
of Phonetic Sciences mainly
Arabic Phonetics (Ilm
al-Ashwat) because it is recognized or
not, basically the
script used in
the Jawi script
is Arabic with various
adjustments (additional letters)
to represent the
letters, which are
not contained in the Arabic script. This study aims to find the right
principle for Jawi based on study of Phonetic Sciences, in the hope of
finding uniformity principle on Jawi
writing. Methods which are more in line with principle of Phonetics (Ilm al-Ashwat), principle
that might be appropriate to serve as a standard of writing Jawi. As
a result, we
may be able
to find the
term / permanent
name and appropriate for the Jawi
script.
Penulis: Masyhur Dungcik, Bety
Kode Jurnal: jpperadabanislamdd140113
