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The Kawi script or the Old Javanese script (Indonesian: aksara kawi, aksara carakan kuna) is a Brahmic script found primarily in Java and used across much of Maritime Southeast Asia between the 8th century and the 16th century. [1] The script is an abugida, meaning that characters are read with an inherent vowel.
Old Javanese or Kawi is the oldest attested phase of the Javanese language. It was spoken in the central and eastern part of Java Island, what is now Central Java and East Java , Indonesia . As a literary language, Kawi was used across Java and on the islands of Madura , Bali , and Lombok .
Terengganu Inscription Stone (Malay: Batu Bersurat Terengganu; Jawi: باتو برسورت ترڠݢانو ) is a granite stele [1] carrying Classical Malay inscription in Jawi script that was found in Terengganu, Malaysia. [2]
Javanese script has been written with numerous media that have shifted over time. Kawi script, which is ancestral to Javanese script, is often found on stone inscriptions and copper plates. Everyday writing in Kawi was done in palm leaf form (ocally known as lontar), which are processed leaves of the tal palm (Borassus flabellifer).
Kawi is a Unicode block containing characters for Kawi script. The script was used historically in insular Southeast Asia to write the Old Javanese , Sanskrit , Old Malay , Old Balinese , and Old Sundanese languages.
Pallava also spread to Southeast Asia and evolved into scripts such as Balinese, [4] Baybayin, [5] Javanese, [6] Kawi, [7] Khmer, [8] Lanna, [9] Lao, [10] Mon–Burmese, [11] New Tai Lue, [12] Sundanese, [13] and Thai. [14] This script is the sister of the Vatteluttu script which was used to write Tamil and Malayalam in the past. [15]
The three square seal style characters are BA, TA and NA; the leftward curl underneath BA is the /u/ vowel diacritic, changing the syllable to BU; the small heart-shaped character under TA is the subscript conjunct form of BA which also removes the default /a/ vowel from TA; the large curl to the upper right is the Kawi virama, which indicates ...
Kawi may refer to: Kawi language, oldest attested phase of the Javanese language; Kawi script, writing system used across Southeast Asia from the 8th century to ...