Javanese Script
Javanese has been traditionally written with Javanese script. However, it has also be written with Arabic script and today generally uses Latin script. Javanese and the related Balinese script are modern variants of the old Kawi script, a Brahmic script introduced to Java along with Hinduism and Buddhism. Kawi is first attested in a legal document from 804 AD. It was widely used in literature and translations from Sanskrit from the 10th century; by the 17th, the script is identified as carakan. A Latin orthography based on Dutch was introduced in 1926, revised in 1972–1973; it has largely supplanted the carakan. The Latin-based forms:
| Majuscule forms (uppercase) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A | B | C | D | E | É | È | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
| Minuscule forms (lowercase) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| a | b | c | d | e | é | è | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z |
The letters f, q, v, x, and z are used in loanwords from European languages and Arabic.
Javanese script:
| Base consonant letters | |||||||||||||||||||
| ꦲ | ꦤ | ꦕ | ꦫ | ꦏ | ꦢ | ꦠ | ꦱ | ꦮ | ꦭ | ꦥ | ꦝ | ꦗ | ꦪ | ꦚ | ꦩ | ꦒ | ꦧ | ꦛ | ꦔ |
| ha | na | ca | ra | ka | da | ta | sa | wa | la | pa | ḍa | ja | ya | nya | ma | ga | ba | ṭa | nga |
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