Javanese script is known as Carakan or Aksara Jawa. It is derived from the Old Kawi script and ultimately from South Indian Pallaya (Vatteluttu) script that in turn developed from the Old Indian Brahmi script.
Hai, I am Nor Ismah, a Masters student of Asian Studies Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. I was born in Pekalongan, a district in Central Java, Indonesia that is also known as Batik city. But now I live in Yogyakarta, a province in Indonesia where you can find Borobudur temple and Merapi mountain. Javanese is my mother tongue and I use it daily with my family and other people in my home town. Both in Pekalongan and Yogyakarta I speak Javanese but they have some slight differences in words and dialects. I also speak Bahasa Indonesia for official and commercial purposes.
I am involved in documentation project to document not only my language, but by doing this I am also helping to converse about my culture. For example, there are some traditional games using Javanese song played by children. When I was small, I used to play traditional games with my friends, but now I have forgotten the games in detail, even our current generation do not play it anymore. So, I also want to keep record of those traditional games to preserve them as our cultural possessions.
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