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	Javanese alphabet, pronunciation and language (aksara jawa)
		The earliest known writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at which time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
		For a period from the 15th Century onwards, Javanese was also written with a version of the Arabic alphabet, called pégon or gundil.
		The Javanese alphabet was also used to write Balinese and Sundanese, but has been replaced by the Latin alphabet.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/javanese.htm (420 words)

	Javanese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Javanese is a term used to describe a native of the Indonesian island of Java.
		The Javanese were traditionally concentrated in the provinces of East Java, Central Java and Yogyakarta, but due to migration within Indonesia (as part of government transmigration programs or otherwise) there are now high populations of Javanese people in almost all the Indonesian provinces.
		The famous Javanese wayang puppetry culture was influenced by Hinduism and Buddhism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Javanese (695 words)

	Javanese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Javanese is written with the Javanese script, (a descendant of the Brahmi script of India), Arabo-Javanese script, Arabic script (modified for Javanese) and Latin script.
		However, in general the structure of Javanese sentences both Old and Modern can be described using the so-called topic-comment model without having to refer to classical grammatical or syntactical categories such as the aforementioned subject, object, predicates, etc. The topic is the head of the sentence; the comment is the modifier.
		The 8th and 9th centuries are marked with the emergence of the Javanese literary tradition with Sang Hyang Kamahayanikan, a Buddhist treatise and the Kakawin Ramayana, a Javanese rendering in Indian metres of the Vishnuistic Sanskrit epic, Rāmâyaṇa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Javanese_language (3471 words)

	Javanese
		Javanese is one of the classical languages of the world, with a literary tradition of over a thousand years.
		Javanese is the spoken language of over 75 million people in the central and eastern parts of the island of Java, in Indonesia (Ethnologue).
		Javanese is an agglutinative language in which grammatical relations are expressed by the addition of prefixes and suffixes to roots.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/june/Javanese.html (1074 words)

	The Javanese family
		The rise of Javanese mysticism, as explained by Mulder (1978), is not merely a reaction against modernization, as some have implied, but is primarily an effort to search for, and to preserve, the cultural identity that dominates the Javanese quest to deal with the present.
		Ideally, marriage is meant by the Javanese to establish a new, nuclear, and autonomous household.
		The Javanese women are industrious and laborious beyond all those of the archipelago, but their labor, instead of being imposed upon them by the men, becomes through its utility to the latter, a source of distinction.
	www.unu.edu /unupress/unupbooks/uu13se/uu13se09.htm (4682 words)

	Indonesia - Javanese
		There were approximately 70 million Javanese in the early 1990s, the majority of whom lived in East Java and Central Java and the rest of whom lived on Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and other islands.
		Although many Javanese expressed pride at the grand achievements of the illustrious courts of Surakarta and Yogyakarta and admired the traditional arts, most Javanese tended to identify not with that elite tradition, or even with a lineage or a clan, but with their own villages.
		Javanese has many such triads--so many that people cannot speak for long in Javanese without having to make a choice, at which point they must decide whether the situation is formal or informal and what the relations among the participants are.
	countrystudies.us /indonesia/45.htm (1338 words)

	Javanese Religion
		Spirits are central to traditional Javanese belief and include ancestral spirits, guardian spirits who are the soul's twin, and guardian spirits of holy places such as old wells, old banyan trees, and caves.
		At the centre of Javanese religion is the slametan ritual, a communal feast.
		Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries the Javanese mystical and pantheistic view of God was mixed with Islamic elements.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/indon/java.html (1355 words)

	indonesiaphoto.com - Javanese identity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although many Javanese expressed pride at the grand achievements of the illustrious courts of Surakarta and Yogyakarta and admired the traditional arts, most Javanese tended to identify not with that elite tradition, or even with a lineage or a clan, but with their own villages (see Early History and The Coming of Islam).
		Most Javanese villages in the early 1990s were differentiated into smaller units known as either rukun kampung (village mutual assistance association) or rukun tetangga (neighborhood association).
		For instance, among the Javanese variations of the word "now," saiki is the least refined, while saniki is a little fancier, and samenika is the most elegant.
	www.indonesiaphoto.com /content/view/171/41 (1354 words)

	Javanese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Javanese (Jawa) is an Austronesian language which has between 75 - 80,000,000 speakers.
		Nearly all first language Javanese speakers are in Indonesia, where is is spoken by over 40% of the population.
		It is also spoken by small numbers in Singapore and The Netherlands and has dialects spoken in several other countries.
	www.flw.com /languages/javanese.htm (52 words)

	Javanese
		The eyes are green, except in the white-coated Javanese, which has dark blue eyes.Colorpoint with dark blue eyes, in the varieties recognized for the Siamese.
		Feline associations are divided on the issue of whether the Javanese is truly a new breed or simply a variety of Balinese.
		Javanese cats are extraverted and “talk” a lot in a melodious voice.
	www.furrycritter.com /resources/cats/Javanese.htm (310 words)

	CFA Breed Article: Javanese
		The Javanese is a Siamese type cat with a medium long coat in the Colorpoint colors: lynx point, tortie point or red/cream point.
		Javanese do talk, but usually only when they want to communicate something; and they have a variety of voices depending upon what they want to say.
		The Javanese coat is one of their most distinctive features, a soft, silky single coat that lies close to the body and develops into a plume on the tail.
	www.cfainc.org /breeds/profiles/articles/javanese.html (2122 words)

	JAVANESE MYSTICISM - SUMARAH - INDONESIA - KEBATINAN - SPIRITUALITY
		Anthropologist Clifford Geertz divides the Javanese population in three main groups: the abangan, the priyayi and the santri.
		If the aspiring Javanese trains himself by means of silence, he will see more clearly with his inner eyes, making it possible to see the essence of things, to remove the veil of mere appearances and temporary values.
		In Javanese mysticism one learns that it is good to honour one's superiors...justice and well-being are expected to flow from above, to originate from a bapak who in his turn derives his power for protection from a higher bapak, etc., until one reaches the realm of supernature and the leader "by the grace of God"
	www.xs4all.nl /~wichm/javmys1.html (3991 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Javanese music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		JAVANESE MUSIC [Javanese music] one of the richest and most distinctive of Asian musical cultures.
		The Javanese gamelan, an orchestra of tuned percussion instruments, primarily of bronze, usually accompanies a performance, particularly the Wayang Kulit (shadow puppet plays).
		Presidents as punakawan: portrayal of national leaders as clown-servants in Central Javanese wayang.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/J/Javanese.asp (563 words)

	Language Reference Guide For Javanese
		The Javanese language is used as a spoken and communal language in suburban and rural areas of Java, and in some parts the urban communities.
		Javanese language is used only on certain programs on the Radio or television and in certain columns.
		The Javanese used by the youth is merely a communication tool for use amongstthemselves, with poor vocabulary, and is no longer suitable for ‘serious occasions’, let alone for literary purpose.
	www.translationdirectory.com /article724.htm (2087 words)

	Search Results for "Javanese" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Javanese music, one of the richest and most distinctive of Asian musical cultures.
		It was taken to Bali by Hindu Javanese in the 15th cent.
		Javanese, from Old Javanese gamelan, percussion instrument, ensemble of...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Javanese (289 words)

	Central Javanese Gamelan
		The language we call Javanese is spoken in the central and eastern parts of the island of Java.
		Javanese is a very complicated language, consisting of three distinct vocabularies and grammars to be used with those in superior, equal, or inferior social positions with respect to the speaker.
		Javanese religion is termed "syncretistic" (i.e., combining various influences), and it is generally only our tendency to give priority to the monotheistic religions which yields the Javanese the designation of "Islamic" per se.
	www.medieval.org /music/world/java.html (2126 words)

	Cat Fanciers' Association: Breed Profile: Javanese
		The Javanese is everything that is Balinese, and then some…the intelligence, grace and refinement of the Siamese, the luxurious silk of the Balinese coat, combined with the designer colors of the Colorpoint Shorthair.
		The Javanese is a breed for folks who want a little spice in their lives.
		Tortie points are the Javanese version of a dizzy blond or crazy redhead acting almost as if, between the splashes of red and cream mixed with the background color, they can’t make up their minds how they are supposed to behave.
	www.cfainc.org /breeds/profiles/javanese.html (994 words)

	Javanese Calendar
		The phenomenon of coincidence (as in the literal meaning, "to coincide") is one of the central pillars of Javanese aesthetics.
		Javanese gamelan music, wherein individual instrumental melodies diverge from each other and then converge again upon important structural tones, is an obvious example.
		In this way, it is perhaps the closest thing the Javanese have to a horoscope system related to astronomical factors, albeit indirectly (i.e., the weather patterns produced by the Earth's revolution about the Sun).
	xentana.com /java/calendar.htm (1219 words)

	Javanese, Javanese Cats, Javanese Breed Information
		The Javanese cat breed was one of numerous cat breeds developed in the United States in the mid-twentieth century; it is essentially a colorpoint shorthair offshoot of the Balinese breed, which in turn was an offshoot of the Siamese breed.
		Javanese cats are generally considered easy to care for, and friendly.
		The breed is one of the relatively new cat breeds to appear toward the middle of the twentieth century, developed by cat fanciers.
	www.i-love-cats.com /Breeds/Javanese.html (284 words)

	javanese
		The Javanese was developed by cat breeders who crossed the colorpoint shorthair with the Balinese to introduce the colorpoint shorthair’s colors in the Balinese breed.
		The Javanese has a medium-sized, slender body that is tubular in shape.
		The fine silky coat of the Javanese grows longer than the coat of a Siamese, but not as long as that of a Persian cat.
	chatonnath-et-douxcoeur.iquebec.com /lespoilslongs/javanais/javanese.htm (193 words)

	Indonesia - A Javanese Wedding
		She was the first Javanese lady of high rank to break with the old Mohammedan traditions.
		The following letter describes a Javanese wedding in high circles: it is her own sister's, and every detail of procedure and decoration is given for the Dutch friend to whom she is writing.
		No Javanese girl must be seen before her marriage; she must remain in the background, usually in her own chamber; and in December we were at Semarang with sister, and she went openly into the shops to buy some things which she wanted.
	www.janesoceania.com /indonesia_wedding (4324 words)

	Co-Brand: The Daily Cat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The coat lies close to the body, and may appear shorter than it really is. Their markings can vary from a soft sprinkling of red and cream on a background of seal, blue, chocolate or lilac, to bold splashes of color, sometimes creating a clown-like appearance.
		Javanese are a study of contradictions - elegant refinement, sometimes fragile in appearance in reality hard and muscular with surprising strength.
		Interesting Breed Fact - Tortie points are the Javanese version of a dizzy blond or crazy redhead acting almost as if, between the splashes of red and cream mixed with the background color, they can't make up their minds how they are supposed to behave.
	www.thedailycat.com /cobrand/facts/briefs/archive/brief_javanese (273 words)

	OHCHR: Javanese () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Javanese dialect spoken in Yogyakarta (Jogja) or Surakarta (Solo) in central Java is considered the standard Javanese because they were, historically speaking, the capital cities of the Javanese culture.
		It is actually a multi-level language where the level spoken is in direct relationship to the social status or politeness required between the individual speakers.
		In other words, Javanese is known for having two "status styles" of expression: regular (shown in dictionaries as N for Ngoko) and respect (K for Krama, pronounced "kromo").
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/jan.htm (1858 words)

	Javanese and Indonesian Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		All Javanese and Indonesian 'i' is pronounced as in 'Italy'.
		Javanese 'O' in oral form or 'A' in written form are mostly pronounced like the English 'A' in 'wash' and 'what'.
		Indonesian and Javanese grammar is, in short, one in which most of the time the verbs and nouns come after the adjective and the word referring to a person, except in certain statements.
	www.geocities.com /omimachifuri/lexicon.htm (1621 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Javanese
		Javanese is one of the earliest languages in Indonesia to possess a literary tradition.
		As a result of contact with Indian merchants, speakers of Javanese adapted the Pallava script, a variant of the Brahmi script, during the 4th centruy CE to write their own language.
		The transition from Kawi into Javanese during the 13th century BCE was more stylistic than structural.
	www.ancientscripts.com /javanese.html (408 words)

	Gamelan in Australia + New Zealand (Javanese + Balinese)
		Javanese and Balinese Gamelan in Australia and New Zealand
		Some Javanese gamelan notation (prepared by Vi King Lim for Langen Suka).
		I started work on a dictionary of Javanese gamelan terms.
	danny.oz.au /gamelan (372 words)

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