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.