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The Javanese writing comes from
the south India alphabet. The diverse aspects of this
kind of writing are visible in epigraphic texts, the
ancient is an inscription write in Sanscrito (sacred
Indian writing) found in an island of Java, Caugal, and
was dated of 6 of October 732. In Danaya, in the east of
the same island another document was found with the help
of a different alphabet, in 28 of November of 760. It
represents the first element of a series of epigraphic
documents, after several changes that conditioned the
modern typographic characters of Java's oriental
alphabets.
This writing has a particularity that consists in the
introduction, in the beginning or in the interior of some
words, letters comparable to the Latin majuscule alphabet
destined uniquely to confer an honorific and respectable
character to this words. |