[albatrosstrophy]

Not sure how true this is, but in Singapore I've heard that the only use for Jawi left is in the weekly Friday sermon (I just checked - weekly khutbahs are uploaded weekly in Jawi). It's a very critical aspect of making language relevant. Unfortunately I doubt this will continue for long, especially as senior religious leaders (who grew up reading Jawi) eventually pass.

[muhammadn]

I've never seen a sermon in Singapore (usually shown from a projector) in Jawi. Maybe the Imams there do read the same copy but in Jawi and the congregants in latin alphabets because i don't think the masses can read Jawi.

Maybe i should check on MUIS's (Singapore's Muslim Religious Authority) website to see if there are Jawi copies of the sermons.

On another note there is Arwi which is an Arabic-Tamil script, which is in a more dire state than Jawi. Unlike Jawi, Arwi is not preserved (or protected by authority) in anyway like how Malaysia does and most of the corpus written in Arwi is now being eaten by termites, which is a really sad thing that the knowledge specific to the Indian muslims is getting lost in time and is not being digitized.