Wiktionary:About Javanese

This policy explains considerations for Javanese entries that are not covered by WT:ELE and other general policies.

Entry layout
This is a basic layout for Javanese entries:

Etymology
From, borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) fire

Introduction
Javanese is one of the Austronesian languages, but it is not particularly close to other languages and is difficult to classify, as successor of since 16 century. Javanese is native to central and east part of. Javanese is used by traditional immigrant communities of Javanese descent in other part of Indonesia, in Malaysia, in Suriname (the Dutch colony of Surinam until 1975), in Sri Lanka and in New Caledonia.

Orthography/Spelling
Historically, Javanese was written in Carakan, Pégon, and Roman scripts. Javanese was written in Carakan or Hanacaraka especially during the time of Mataram dynasties. Many publications in Carakan were published during the colonial time. The usage of Carakan declined drastically in 20th century with the ban of regional language publications during the Japanese occupation in Java. Attempts to revive Carakan has grown in recent years. Pégon is an Arabic abjad designed to write Javanese. Its usage is limited to traditional Islamic boarding schools or pesantrèn. Each school has its own standard for writing in Pégon.

The introduction of the Roman alphabet for Javanese came along with European imperialists in Java. Practices of writing Javanese in the Roman alphabet has lasted for more than 100 years with its first orthography established in 1913. Until now, most Javanese write and read their language in the Roman alphabet, yet struggle to write and read in Carakan. Due to the latter, pre-independence Javanese books are massively transliterated into the Roman alphabet. Javanese dictionaries, school textbooks, magazines, and TV channels are thus written in the Roman alphabet.

Wiktionary may be used by learners who are and are not proficient in Javanese. Some Javanese learners may be only able to read and write in Roman without knowing a word in its standard form yet want to learn about it, while some others may want to learn a word in other spellings, including ones in Carakan and Pégon. Considering the mentioned situation, the latest Roman spelling standard, which is Ejaan Bahasa Jawa Huruf Latin Yang Disempurnakan (2006) and Bausastra Jawa, is used to determine for placing a word’s definition.