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hanacaraka

hanacaraka noun: the traditional arrangement of the letters of the Javanese and Balinese scripts.

Noun

hanacaraka (uncountable)

  1. The traditional arrangement of the letters of the Javanese and Balinese scripts.
    • Just as our costume changes, so too do they want to dispense with the hanacaraka script.1987, Paul Tickell, The Indonesian Press: Its Past, Its People, Its Problems

Origin of hanacaraka

Borrowed from Javanese ꦲꦤꦕꦫꦏ (hanacaraka).

Questions about hanacaraka

What does hanacaraka mean?
Hanacaraka means the traditional arrangement of the letters of the Javanese and Balinese scripts.
What part of speech is hanacaraka?
Hanacaraka is a noun.

Words near hanacaraka in the dictionary

  1. han-geul
  2. Han-k'ou
  3. Han-tan
  4. Han-yang
  5. Hana
  6. hanacaraka
  7. hanachas tefillin
  8. Hanadi
  9. Hanae
  10. Hanael
  11. Hanafi

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