Editing Javanese script (section)

{{Short description|Writing system used for several Austronesian languages}}
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{{Infobox writing system
| name        = Javanese
| native_name = {{lang|jv-Java|ꦲꦏ꧀ꦱꦫꦗꦮ}}
| type        = [[Abugida]]
| languages   = [[Javanese language|Javanese]]<br/>[[Sundanese language|Sundanese]]<br/>[[Madurese language|Madurese]]<br/>[[Sasak language|Sasak]]<br/>[[Malay language|Malay]]<br/>[[Indonesian language|Indonesian]]<br/>[[Kawi language|Kawi]]<br/>[[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit]]
| fam1        = [[Egyptian hieroglyphs|Egyptian]]
| fam2        = [[Proto-Sinaitic]]
| fam3        = [[Phoenician script|Phoenician]]
| fam4        = [[Aramaic script|Aramaic]]
| fam5        = [[Brahmi script]]
| fam6        = [[Tamil Brahmi]]
| fam7        = [[Pallava script]]
| fam8        = [[Kawi script]]
| sisters     = [[Balinese alphabet]]<br />[[Batak alphabet]]<br />[[Baybayin|Baybayin scripts]]<br />[[Lontara alphabet]]<br />[[Makasar script|Makasar]]<br/>[[Sundanese script]]<br />[[Rencong alphabet]]<br />[[Rejang alphabet]]<br />[[Sasak script]]
| time        = {{Circa|1500s}} CE – present
| unicode     = [https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UA980.pdf {{monospace|U+A980}}–{{monospace|U+A9DF}}]
| iso15924    = Java
| sample      = Aksara_Jawa.svg
| imagesize   = 
}}

{{Writing systems in Indonesia}}
{{Contains special characters|Javanese}}
{{Brahmic}}

'''Javanese script''' (natively known as ''Aksara Jawa'', ''Hanacaraka'', ''Carakan'', and ''Dentawyanjana'')<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f4G5AAAAIAAJ|title=Baoesastra Djawa|last=Poerwadarminta|first=W.J.S|publisher=J.B. Wolters|year=1939|isbn=0834803496|location=Batavia|language=jv}}</ref> is one of [[Indonesia]]'s traditional scripts developed on the island of [[Java]]. The script is primarily used to write the [[Javanese language]] and has also been used to write several other regional languages such as [[Sundanese language|Sundanese]] and [[Madurese language|Madurese]], the regional [[lingua franca]] [[Malay language|Malay]], as well as the historical languages [[Kawi language|Kawi]] and [[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit]]. It heavily influenced the [[Balinese script]] from which the [[Sasak script|writing system]] for [[Sasak language|Sasak]] developed. Javanese script was actively used by the Javanese people for writing day-to-day and literary texts from at least the mid-16th century [[Common Era|CE]] until the mid-20th century CE, before it was gradually supplanted by the Latin alphabet. Today, the script is taught in the [[Special Region of Yogyakarta|Yogyakarta Special Region]] as well as the provinces of [[Central Java Province|Central Java]] and [[East Java]] as part of the local curriculum, but with very limited function in everyday use.{{sfn|Behrend|1996|pp=161}}{{sfn|Everson|2008|pp=1}}

Javanese script is an [[abugida]] writing system which consists of 20 to 33 basic letters, depending on the language being written. Like other [[Brahmic scripts]], each letter (called an ''aksara'') represents a syllable with the [[inherent vowel]] /a/ or /ɔ/ which can be changed with the placement of [[diacritic]]s around the letter. Each letter has a conjunct form called ''pasangan'', which nullifies the inherent vowel of the previous letter. Traditionally, the script is written without spaces between words (''[[scriptio continua]]'') but is interspersed with a group of decorative [[punctuation]].