Old Javanese

Old Javanese
Native toIndonesia
RegionJava, Bali, Madura, Lombok
Eraliterary language, developed into Middle Javanese by 13th century, and developed into Modern Javanese by 16th-17th century
Kawi, Javanese, Balinese
Language codes
ISO 639-2kaw
ISO 639-3kaw
kaw
Glottologkawi1241
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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