Kawi

Proper noun

Kawi

1. 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.
   • 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.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 440
   • 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.2012, Adrian Vickers, Bali: A Paradise Created, 2nd edition, Tuttle, page 118
2. The script used in writing this language.