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The Kawi script is related to the Nagari or old-Devanagari script in India. Also called the Prae-Nagari in Dutch publications after the classic work of F.D.K. Bosch on early Indonesian scripts, the early-Nagari form of script was primarily used in the Kawi script form to write southeast Asian Sanskrit and Old Javanese language in central and ...
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Aksara Jawa Kuno atau Aksara Kawi (dari bahasa Jawa Kuno: kawi, yang berarti "pujangga, penyair; mahir dalam mengubah puisi") [1] adalah aksara historis yang terutama ditemukan di Pulau Jawa dan digunakan di sebagian besar wilayah Asia Tenggara antara abad ke-8 hingga ke-16. [2] [3]
- abad ke-8 hingga 16
- Abugida
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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 or Kawi ( lit. 'poet', Sanskrit: कवि, romanized : kavi) is the oldest attested phase of the Javanese language. It was spoken in the eastern part of what is now Central Java and the whole of East Java, Indonesia. As a literary language, Kawi was used across Java and on the islands of Madura, Bali, and Lombok.
- literary language, developed into Middle Javanese by 13th–14th century
Type of writing system: Abugida / Syllabic Alphabet - each letter has an inherent vowel /a/. Other vowels can be indicated using a variety of diacritics which appear above, below, in front of or after the main letter. The Javanese alphabet consists of akṣara (letters), saṇḍangan (diacritics), wilangan (numerals), and pada (punctuation).
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.
In various parts of Indonesia, Kawi script would then evolve into Indonesia's various traditional scripts, one of them being Javanese script. The modern Javanese script seen today evolved from Kawi script between the 14th and 15th centuries, a period in which Java began to receive significant Islamic influence.
