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The word Jawa written in Javanese script Two Javanese speakers, recorded in Indonesia. Javanese (/ ˌ dʒ ɑː v ə ˈ n iː z / JAH-və-NEEZ, [3] / dʒ æ v ə-/ JAV-ə-, /-ˈ n iː s /- NEESS; [4] basa Jawa, Javanese script: ꦧꦱꦗꦮ, Pegon: باسا جاوا , IPA: [bɔsɔ d͡ʒɔwɔ]) is a Malayo-Polynesian language of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily by the ...
Sanskrit has had a deep and lasting impact on the vocabulary of the Javanese language. The Old Javanese–English Dictionary, written by Professor P.J. Zoetmulder in 1982, contains approximately 25,500 entries, no fewer than 12,500 of which are borrowed from Sanskrit. This large number is not an indication of usage, but it is an indication that ...
Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name. Other informative or qualifying ...
Javanese script is an abugida writing system which consists of 20 to 33 basic letters, depending on the language being written. Like other Brahmic scripts , each letter (called an aksara ) represents a syllable with the inherent vowel /a/ or /ɔ/ which can be changed with the placement of diacritics around the letter.
Short and long vowels, written either with a macron (āēīōū) or by replication (aa, ee, ii, oo, uu) Frequent diphtongs (oiaue, māori) Words always end with a vowel; Loanwords are translitterated (like in Japanese): Sesu Kilisito=Jesus Christ, polokalama=program) Frequent English or French loanwords (depending on colonial history)
Javanese Latin alphabet is Latin script used for writing the Javanese language. Prior to the introduction of Latin script, Javanese was written in Javanese script (hanacaraka). The Latin script was introduced during Dutch colonial period which exhibited the influence of Dutch orthography .
Javanese people, and their culture; Javanese language. Javanese script, traditional letters used to write Javanese language; Javanese (Unicode block), Old Javanese, the oldest phase of the Javanese language; Javanese beliefs; Javanese calendar; Javanese cuisine; Javanese Surinamese, an ethnic group of Javanese descent in Suriname
The Madurese language has a more complicated phonology than other Javanese languages. It includes the vowel /ɤ/ (â) and a wider range of glottal stops than Javanese or Sundanese. The Arabic script as adapted to Madurese, known as pèghu, had some differences from other versions of pegon, and is always written vocalized using diacritics.