The discovery of Javanese writing in a Sri Lankan Malay manuscript

Beyond the boundaries of what is typically considered the Indonesian-Malay world, a small community known today as the Sri Lanka Malays continued to employ the Malay language in writing and speech long after its ancestors left the Indonesian archipelago and Malay peninsula for their new home. Althou...

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Main Author:	Ronit Ricci
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BRILL 2013-01-01
Series:	Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
Subjects:	Malay language Sri Lanka Malays Javanese language
Online Access:	http://www.kitlv-journals.nl/index.php/btlv/article/view/8556

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title	The discovery of Javanese writing in a Sri Lankan Malay manuscript
title_short	The discovery of Javanese writing in a Sri Lankan Malay manuscript
title_full	The discovery of Javanese writing in a Sri Lankan Malay manuscript
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description	Beyond the boundaries of what is typically considered the Indonesian-Malay world, a small community known today as the Sri Lanka Malays continued to employ the Malay language in writing and speech long after its ancestors left the Indonesian archipelago and Malay peninsula for their new home. Although it is reasonable to assume that the ancestors of the Malays spoke a variety of languages, at least initially, no traces of writing in another Indonesian language have ever been found. Below I present the first evidence of such writing, in Javanese, encountered in an early nineteenth century manuscript from Colombo.
topic	Malay language Sri Lanka Malays Javanese language
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The discovery of Javanese writing in a Sri Lankan Malay manuscript

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