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Javanese (Unicode block)

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Plane
  
BMP

Assigned
  
91 code points

Major alphabets
  
Aksara Jawa

Unused
  
5 reserved code points

Range
  
U+A980..U+A9DF (96 code points)

Scripts
  
Javanese (90 char.) Common (1 char.)

Javanese is a Unicode block containing aksara Jawa characters traditionally used for writing the Javanese language. The Javanese script was added to the Unicode Standard in October 2009 with the release of version 5.2.

Contents

Block

The Unicode block for Javanese is U+A980–U+A9DF. There are 91 codepoints for Javanese script: 53 letters, 19 punctuation marks, 10 numbers, and 9 vowels:

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Javanese block:

References

Javanese (Unicode block) Wikipedia