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Malay Alphabet (Arabic)

The letters and characters of Malay written in the Arabic script, in order — every standard character with its name and codepoint, the additional and punctuation sets, and exactly how many fonts include them. About 3,403,837 people read or write it across 3 countries.

Malay is also written in: (Latin)

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Malay — the language's alphabet, in its traditional order. Tap a character to copy it; each name opens the full character page.

Additional Characters

Used for foreign words, names and technical terms, and older forms of the language.

Punctuation characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning.

Where Malay (Arabic) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Malay in the Arabic script. The map is zoomed to the region where at least 1% of a country's people read it; neighbouring countries are shown unshaded for context.