Kawi

kawi Translingual Etymology From mul en Kawi or mul fr kawi. Symbol Kawi script Kawi English 200px|right Etymology From en sa कवि. Pronunciation en /ˈkɑːwi/ Proper noun A literary and prose language based on Old Javanese with a large number of Sanskrit loanwords, and used on the islands of Java, Bali and Lombok. en 1869 Alfred Russel Wallace The Malay Archipelago Macmillan and Co. II London 440 They speak the Javanese and Kawi languages, which they write in a native character. They are now Mahometans in Java, but Brahmins in Bali and Lombock. en 2012 Adrian Vickers Bali: A Paradise Created 2nd Tuttle 118 The theory that Balinese religion was a branch of Indian Hinduism led the society to believe that the literature of ancient Bali should be in the classical language of India, but in fact the Kawi language has absolutely no grammatical connection to Sanskrit. The script used in writing this language. Translations Ancient writing system Armenian: hy Burmese: my အက္ခရာကဝိ Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 卡維文 kǎwéiwén Finnish: fi kawi Georgian: ka Hindi: hi कावि लिपि f Hungarian: hu Khmer: km អក្សរកវិ Lao: lo ອັກສອນກະວິ Russian: ru кави Tagalog: tl Kawi Thai: th อักษรกวิ Anagrams en aikw kwai en Languages Writing systems Balinese Etymology ban kaw kawi poet, from ban sa कवि poet. Pronunciation ban /kawi/ Noun ban noun Balinese script ᬓᬯᬶ en Old Javanese en Kawi Further reading kawi Tagalog Etymology Ultimately from tl sa कवि. Pronunciation Proper noun + Old Javanese See also tl kawi References Anagrams tl aikw iwak ikaw waki wika tl Languages