Also known as Kawi language, Kevinese language, Old Javanese, Old Javanese language
oldest attested phase of the Javanese language
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Copy of stele written in Kawi script Old Javanese or Kawi is an Austronesian language and the oldest attested phase of the Javanese language. It was natively spoken in the central and eastern part of Java Island, what is now Central Java, Yogyakarta and East Java Provinces, Indonesia. As a literary language, Kawi was used across Java and on the islands of Madura, Bali, and Lombok.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).