Editing Kawi script (section)

{{Short description|Old Javanese script}}
{{for|the language|Kawi language}}
{{use dmy dates|date=October 2024}}
{{Infobox writing system
| name        = Akṣara Kawi
| altname     = {{Script|Kawi|𑼄𑼒𑽂𑼰𑼬𑼒𑼮𑼶}}
| type        = [[Abugida]]
| languages   = [[Balinese language|Old Balinese]], [[Old Javanese]], [[Old Sundanese language|Old Sundanese]], [[Old Malay]], [[Tagalog language|Old Tagalog]], [[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit]]
| fam1        = [[Egyptian hieroglyphs]]
| fam2        = [[Proto-Sinaitic alphabet]]
| fam3        = [[Phoenician alphabet]]
| fam4        = [[Aramaic alphabet]]
| fam5        = [[Brāhmī script|Brāhmī]]
| fam6        = [[Tamil-Brahmi]]
| fam7        = [[Pallava script|Pallava]]
| footnotes   = 
| sisters     = [[Khmer script|Khmer]], [[Cham script|Cham]], [[Old Mon script|Old Mon]], [[Grantha script|Grantha]], [[Tamil script|Tamil]]
| children    = '''In Indonesia:'''<br/>[[Balinese_script|Balinese]]<br/>[[Batak_script|Batak]]<br/>[[Javanese_script|Javanese (Hanacaraka)]]<br/>[[Lontara_script|Lontara]]<br/>[[Sundanese_script|Sundanese]]<br/>[[Rencong_script|Rencong]]<br/>[[Rejang_script|Rejang]]<br/>[[Buda Script|Buda]]<br/>
'''In the Philippines:'''<br/>[[Baybayin|Baybayin scripts]]
| time        = {{circa|8th–16th century}}
| sample      = Shukla Kawi.svg
| imagesize   = 160px
| caption     = 'Kawi' in newly standardized Kawi script
| iso15924    = Kawi
| unicode     = [https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U11F00.pdf U+11F00–U+11F5F]
}}
{{Contains special characters
| special    = uncommon [[Unicode]] characters
| fix        = Help:Multilingual support#Kawi
| image      = Replacement character.svg
| link       = Specials (Unicode block)#Replacement character
| alt        = <?>
| compact    = yes
}}
{{brahmic}}
The '''Kawi script''' or the '''Old Javanese script''' ({{langx|id|aksara kawi}}, {{lang|id|aksara carakan kuna}}) is a [[Brahmic script]] found primarily in [[Java]] and used across much of [[Maritime Southeast Asia]] between the 8th century and the 16th century.<ref name=bayu>Aditya Bayu Perdana and Ilham Nurwansah 2020. [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20284r-kawi.pdf Proposal to encode Kawi]</ref> The script is an [[abugida]], meaning that characters are read with an inherent vowel. [[Diacritic]]s are used, either to suppress the vowel and represent a pure consonant, or to represent other vowels.<ref name=DeCasparis>De Casparis, J. G. ''Indonesian Palaeography: A History of Writing in Indonesia from the beginnings to c. AD 1500'', Leiden/Koln, 1975, pp. 35-42 with footnotes</ref><ref name=briggs/>