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The Kawi or Old Javanese script is a Brahmic script found primarily in Java and used across much of Maritime Southeast Asia between the 8th century and the 16th century. The script is an abugida , meaning that characters are read with an inherent vowel.
Aksara Kawi memiliki huruf subskrip yang digunakan untuk menulis tumpukan konsonan, setara dengan pasangan dalam aksara Jawa dan pangangge dalam aksara Bali. Namun beberapa inskripsi aksara Kawi tidak menggunakan pasangan dalam penulisannya, seperti prasasti pada Candi Sukuh di Kabupaten Karanganyar, Jawa Tengah.
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It was used mainly to write Sanskrit and Old Javanese, and is the ancestral script of Javanese, Balinese, Baybayin and other scripts of Indonesia and the Philippines. Notable features. Type of writing system: Abugida / Syllabic Alphabet; Script family: Proto-Sinaitic, Phoenician, Aramaic, Brāhmī, Pallava
Old Javanese was written with Kawi or Old Javanese script in 8th–16th century. The Kawi script is a Brahmic script found primarily in Java and used across much of Maritime Southeast Asia . The Kawi script is related to the Pallava script and Kadamba script in South India.
Script family: Proto-Sinaitic, Phoenician, Aramaic, Brāhmī, Pallava, Kawi, Javanese; Writing direction: left to right in horizontal lines; The Javanese alphabet consists of akṣara (letters), saṇḍangan (diacritics), wilangan (numerals), and pada (punctuation).
Many literary works such as epics, poetry and prose use the Jawi script. It is the pinnacle of the classic Malay civilisation. Historical epics such as the Malay Annals, as listed by UNESCO under Memories of the World, are among the countless epics written by the Malay people.
The Kawi or Old Javanese script is a Brahmic script found primarily in Java and used across much of Maritime Southeast Asia between the 8th century and the 16th century. The script is an abugida, meaning that characters are read with an inherent vowel.
