WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Pocong - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocong

    Pocong (Indonesian pronunciation: [pɔ't͡ʃɔŋ] poh-chong; from Javanese: ꦥꦺꦴꦕꦺꦴꦁ, romanized: pocong, lit. 'wrapped-in-shroud') is a ghost that looks like a person wrapped in a funeral cloth. [1] In Islamic funeral, a shroud called a " kain kafan " (in Indonesian and Malay) is used to wrap the body of the dead person.

  3. Indonesian Arabic - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_Arabic

    Indonesian Arabic (Arabic: العربية الاندونيسية, romanized: al-‘Arabiyya al-Indūnīsiyya, Indonesian: Bahasa Arab Indonesia) is a variety of Arabic spoken in Indonesia. It is primarily spoken by people of Arab descents and by students (santri) who study Arabic at Islamic educational institutions or pesantren. This language ...

  4. Jawi script - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawi_script

    Jawi (جاوي‎; Acehnese: Jawoë; Kelantan-Pattani: Yawi; Malay pronunciation: [d͡ʒä.wi]) is a writing system used for writing several languages of Southeast Asia, such as Acehnese, Magindanawn, Malay, Mëranaw, Minangkabau, Tausūg, and Ternate. Jawi is based on the Arabic script, consisting of all 31 original Arabic letters, six letters ...

  5. File:Meeting of Indonesian Arab Party in Bandung, 1939.jpg

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Meeting_of_Indonesian...

    Bahasa Indonesia: Keturunan Arab pada pertemuan Partai Arab Indonesia di Bandung tahun 1939. Date: 15 October 1939: Source:

  6. Arabic script - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_script

    official at a provincial level (China, India, Tanzania) or a recognized second script of the official language (Malaysia, Tajikistan) The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic, ALV and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world (after the Latin script), [ 2 ...

  7. List of countries and territories where Arabic is an official ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and...

    Arabic is the lingua franca of people who live in countries of the Arab world as well as of Arabs who live in the diaspora, particularly in Latin America (especially Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile and Colombia) or Western Europe (like France, Spain, Germany or Italy). Cypriot Arabic is a recognized minority language in the EU member state ...

  8. Arabic-based pidgins and creoles - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic-based_pidgins_and...

    Arabic creoles and pidgins. The Arabic creoles and pidgins are: Bimbashi Arabic, a colonial-era pidgin of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and the ancestor of the other Sudanic pidgins and creoles. Turku Arabic, a pidgin of colonial Chad. Juba Arabic, spoken in South Sudan. Nubi language, spoken in Uganda and Kenya.

  9. Arab Indonesians - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Indonesians

    The official number of Arab and part-Arab descent in Indonesia was recorded since 19th century. The census of 1870 recorded a total of 12,412 Arab Indonesians (7,495 living in Java and Madura and the rest in other islands). By 1900, the total number of Arabs citizens increased to 27,399, then 44,902 by 1920, and 71,335 by 1930. [5]