That's odd, as such a language would benefit most from a "word for letter" writing system like the Chinese one, yet Malay ended up being written in jawi arabic

That's odd, as such a language would benefit most from a "word for letter" writing system like the Chinese one, yet Malay ended up being written in jawi arabic alphabet. I wonder if there are other languages with this type of "mismatch" between the writing system / alphabet and the language structure...