Indonesian Historical Scripts (Part 02)

 ---------------- Development Of Indonesian Scripts From Time to Time  ----------------

Age of Empire-Hindu-Buddhist kingdom

Literacy developed in the days of the kingdoms of the Hindu-Buddhist is generally used to write the language or languages Sansekerta highly affected areas Sansekerta language.

-  Script Pallawa

-  Nagari script

-  Literacy Kawi (Old Javanese script)

-  Script Buda

-  Kuna Sundanese script

-  Proto-literacy Sumatra

Age of Empire, the Islamic empire

Characters are developed in the Islamic kingdoms of whom have written letters to sounds in Arabic that are not included in the local language (eg Java Script and Balinese) or follow the vowel system of Arabic Alphabet vowel system with only three vowels (eg Literacy Kerinci and script Buhid).

-  Literacy Batak (Batak Letter)

-  Script Rejang

-  Kerinci script (Letter Incung)

-  Literacy Lampung (Had Lappung)

-  Java Script (Java Script New / Hanacaraka)

-  Balinese

-  Script Lontara

-  Baybayin script (script Tagalog)

-  Script Tagbanwa

-  Script Buhid

-  Script Hanuno'o

-  Kapampangan script

-  Script Eskaya

Modern Age

Literacy is a growing area in modern times have letters to write in Arabic sounds (eg f and z) and the Latin language (eg x and y) are not available in local languages.

Script changes Pallawa (leftmost column) into a number of characters of the archipelago. Eighth column is the New Java Script (Hanacaraka), the ninth column is Balinese, and the rightmost column is the Bugis script (Lontara).

With the changing times, culture, society and language users, a script may change the number of letters, form letters and sounds, although still regarded as part of its parent script, or in other words, do not split into the new script. Thus for example the Arabic alphabet used to write Arabic Arabic alphabet is slightly different from that used for writing Malay, or the Latin alphabet is also used to write the Latin language is slightly different to the Latin alphabet used to write the German language. In the course sejarahnyapun script from Nusantara not escape the tendency to bring new variations that keep the core rules of the parent script. Other characters that are used in addition to the above script:

>  Arabic alphabet: [*] for Malay Jawi script and [*] Java Script Pegon for Language and Bahasa Sunda

>  Latin alphabet: [*] Spelling Van Ophuijsen, [*] Spelling Soewandi, and [*] EYD

>  Hanzi

>  Hangul

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Hangul alphabet, derived from Korean immigrants in Indonesia

Jawi script for Bahasa Melayu

to be continued again, hehehe..