Talk:Javanese script

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earlier comments

Come on - this article is barely a stub. Not much there at all. Merbabu 13:47, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What this article desperately needs are images of the script. id:Berkas:Hanacaraka-jawa.png says it's GFDL, but—as it doesn't say anything about how the image is created—I'm hesitant to use it, in case it uses a non-GFDL-compatible font. — LazyEditor (talk) 14:12, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Plus, unfortunately, id:Hanacaraka smells too much like plagiarism to me. — LazyEditor (talk) 12:43, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well I have uploaded the picture on commons recently. Meursault2004 15:34, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oversized box for history of scripts

Is there really any need for a small article to have to carry such an unwieldy side box? Satu Suro 11:56, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

no - have you scrolled down? You may not have seen all of it! --Merbabu (talk) 12:03, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree the box with the entire genealogy of the Brahmic languages is too large, and can probably be removed. (There should be links to other languages of the same family, but the entire genealogy is maybe more something for the Brahmic family page.) Joost (talk) 12:57, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I replaced them with links in the see also section. RJFJR (talk) 15:27, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Citations needed

This article needs to be converted to inline citation for fact checking rather than just a list of further reading. Also I remove stats from the lead as per WP:LEAD it should be a summary of the article, the article doesnt have anything about how many people use the script, nor does it cover anything about publications in Javanese script. Additionally I find the stats rather hard to believe out of population 125 million speakers only 6.4% of them can write it, thats why Wikipedia requires citations. Gnan garra 06:32, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

quote request

This replaced the Javanese script and as a result, there are currently no newspapers or magazines being printed in the Javanese script even with over 8 million Javanese speakers. I have tagged as requesting a direct quote as this seams a particularly low figure and also clarify when "currently" existed in relation to the source. Gnan garra 16:49, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

From Marc

I added a coupld of links where they seemed necessary.

In the Scripts section, maybe there is a better way to organize the information. It struck me as a little confusing or overwhelming. In this section, the sentence "Only l, r, w, and y can form consonant clusters in Javanese." could be a little clearer, maybe with a better way to show sounds than just listing letters.

Also, the Javanese section perhaps should be titles something else, especially since the whole page is called Javanese. Maybe something like "Characteristics" would be better. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matanuska (talk • contribs) 00:32, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

From Melissa

Overall, I like the organization of this page. Sections are clear and logical. You added a lot of useful information.

I have two suggestions:

1) This article doesn't contain very many links to other Wikipedia pages. You could add some which link to the pages for terms you use in the article.

2) Some information is repeated in a few places throughout the article, so you could fix that. Also, it might be helpful if you explained a bit more clearly the information you have in the "Javanese" section. Zoogzy (talk) 19:11, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

More possible improvements

The direction of writing doesn't appear to be mentioned anywhere on the page - this should probably be added. Also, it is noted that despite there being over eight million speakers of Javanese, there aren't any more newspapers or magazines written in the Javanese script being produced - perhaps some information about the number of people who recognize/use Javanese script versus the number of people who speak Javanese, but use the new Latin alphabet system could be added. —Fuzzy Pickle (talk) 00:57, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

From Jia

In general, I think your page is incredibly detailed but I feel like the details might be a bit overwhelming and messy sometimes. The scripts section was a bit confusing to read and digest. Perhaps adding some kind of phonetic chart (If available) for the consonants/vowels to organize it a bit. Also, maybe a little mention about how the current latin alphabet script compares to the carakan script.cjdz (talk) 02:22, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unicode

It think it's official now as of October 2, 2009. Don't have the link yet though. Meursault2004 (talk) 06:55, 4 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Javanese Script: Abjad or Alphabet?

Gunarta (talk) 02:10, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Neither. It's abugida, as stated in the article. Who changed the title into "alphabet"?Jiwa Matahari (talk) 13:04, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]