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Old Javanese | |
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Native to | Indonesia |
Region | Java, Bali, Madura, Lombok |
Era | literary language, developed into Middle Javanese by 13th century, and developed into Modern Javanese by 16th-17th century |
Austronesian
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Kawi, Javanese, Balinese | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | kaw |
ISO 639-3 | kaw |
kaw | |
Glottolog | kawi1241 |
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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