What is Official script?
An '''official script''' is a [[writing system]] a country's [[government]] uses to write government [[Document|documents]], such as [[Law|laws]], [[Contract|contracts]], etc. An official script should not be confused with an [[official language]], because writing systems and spoken [[Language|languages]] are not the same. For many languages, the same language can often be written in different writing systems. For example, the [[Malay language]] can be written in either the [[Latin script|Latin alphabet]] (rumi) or the [[Arabic alphabet]] (jawi). Also, many languages have changed writing systems for political or religious reasons. For example, [[English language|English]] was first written in [[Anglo-Saxon runes]], but English later borrowed the Latin alphabet because Christian [[Missionary|missionaries]] wrote Christian [[Poetry|poems]] and [[Book|books]] in English using the Latin alphabet so that the Anglo-Saxons could understand what the missionaries taught them. Also, in 1928, the Turkish leader [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk|Ataturk]] passed a law that said that [[Turkish alphabet|Turkish]] must no longer be written with the Arabic alphabet, but now the language must be written in the Latin alphabet. Today, all signs and government documents are written in the Latin alphabet. [[Category:Writing systems]] {{stub}}