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Front Matter
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.
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The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
왼쪽에서 오른쪽으로 표기.
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System
Abugida
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Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Descendants of hieroglyphs
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
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