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Encyclopedia > Javanese script

Javanese script is the script that Javanese is originally written in (not to be confused with Javascript, which is a programming language). It consists of 20 main consonants with an inherent vowel 'o' (like in 'road'), though usually it's transliterated to 'a' (similar to Abugida writing system).


The twenty consonants are:
ha, na, ca, ra, ka
da, ta, sa, wa, la
pa, dha, ja, ya, nya
ma, ga, ba, tha, nga


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Meaning Behind Javanese Script

Interestingly, the script itself is a poem, whose line-by-line translation is as follows:
There (were/was) warriors
(They) had animosity (among each other)
(They were) equally powerful (in fight)
Both (were) dead.


in details :


'hana'/'ana' = there were/was
'caraka' = warrior (actually, 'one who loyal to and being trusted by someone')
'data' = have/has
'sawala' = difference (regarding a matter)
'padha' = same, equal
'jayanya' = 'their power', 'jaya' could means 'glory' as well
'maga' = 'both' (TODO:check this)
'bathanga' = 'be a dead body' = 'die' , since 'bathang' = corpse


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Javanese is one of the classical languages of the world, with a literary tradition of over a thousand years.
Javanese is the spoken language of over 75 million people in the central and eastern parts of the island of Java, in Indonesia (Ethnologue).
Javanese is an agglutinative language in which grammatical relations are expressed by the addition of prefixes and suffixes to roots.
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Javanese is written with the Javanese script, (a descendant of the Brahmi script of India), Arabo-Javanese script, Arabic script (modified for Javanese) and Latin script.
The 8th and 9th centuries are marked with the emergence of the Javanese literary tradition with Sang Hyang Kamahayanikan, a Buddhist treatise and the Kakawin Ramayana, a Javanese rendering in Indian metres of the Vishnuistic Sanskrit epic, Rāmâyaṇa.
The expansion of the Javanese culture, including Javanese script and language, began in 1293 with the eastward push of the Hindu-Buddhist East-Javanese Empire Majapahit, toward Madura and Bali.
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