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Indonesia: Wadana or frontispiece of Babad Tanah Jawi ('History of the Javanese Land'), 19th century.

Indonesia: Wadana or frontispiece of Babad Tanah Jawi ('History of the Javanese Land'), 19th century.

The Javanese script, natively known as Hanacaraka), Carakan, or Aksara Jawa, is a pre-colonial script used to write Javanese and several other native languages of Indonesia. It is closely related to the Balinese script.

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