01OVERVIEW
Front Matter
SCRIPT · PROFILE
Kawi Script
Ancient script used in Java, Bali, and Sumatra (8th–14th century), the common ancestor of modern Javanese, Balinese, and Sundanese scripts.
Ancient script used in Java, Bali, and Sumatra (8th–14th century), the common ancestor of modern Javanese, Balinese, and Sundanese scripts. "Kawi" means "poet" in Sanskrit, and the script was used to write Old Javanese (Kawi), the language of Indonesian court literature. The inscriptions at Borobudur Buddhist temple were carved in this script.
04SPECIMEN
The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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06MECHANICS
Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
Written left to right.
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System
Abugida
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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07LINEAGE
The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Ancestors & descendants
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
08REACH