Kawi
Sign in to saveAlso known as Kawi language, Kevinese language, Old Javanese, Old Javanese language
oldest attested phase of the Javanese language
Key facts
- Native to
- Indonesia
- Region
- Java , Bali , Madura , Lombok
- Era
- literary language , developed into Middle Javanese at the end of the 13th century, and developed into Early Modern Javanese by 16th-17th century
- Language family
- Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Old Javanese
- Writing system
- Kawi , Javanese , Balinese
- Iso 639 2
- kaw
- Iso 639 3
- kaw
- Linguist list
- kaw
- Glottolog
- kawi1241
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- language
- Subclass of
- Malayo-Polynesian
- Country
- Indonesia
- Image
- Copy of a stone stele written in Kawi script.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Old Javanese language
- writing system
- Kawi script
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- P10369
- Lech Wałęsa
- indigenous to
- West Nusa Tenggara
- P13311
- Shaki Waterfall
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kawi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.