Pegon script

E39178

Pegon script is an adapted form of the Arabic script traditionally used by Javanese and Sundanese Muslims to write their local languages, especially for religious and literary texts.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Pegon script canonical 10

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arabic-derived script
abjad
writing system
adaptedFrom Arabic orthography
associatedRegion Java Island
West Java
associatedReligion Islam
currentStatus minority script
used in traditional Islamic boarding schools
derivedFrom Arabic script
linked to: Arabic alphabet
encodes Islamic jurisprudence texts in Javanese
Quranic commentaries in local languages
Sundanese Islamic manuscripts
hasAdditionalLettersFor Javanese phonemes
Malay phonemes
Sundanese phonemes
hasAlternateName Aksara Pegon
linked to: Jawi script
hasDiacritics true
hasFeature adapted orthographic conventions for Austronesian languages
additional consonant letters beyond standard Arabic
hasTransliterationTo Javanese script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
hasVowelNotation true
historicalUsagePeriod Dutch East Indies period
linked to: Dutch East Indies

pre-colonial era in Java
ISO15924Code none
primaryUsage Islamic education
Islamic literature
literary texts
poetry
religious texts
representsVowelsWith harakat diacritics
scriptFamily Arabic script
usedBy Javanese Muslims
Madurese Muslims
linked to: Orang Madura

Sundanese Muslims
linked to: Sundanese people
usedFor Indonesian language
Javanese language
Madurese language
linked to: Madurese

Malay language
linked to: Malay

Sundanese language
usedForReligiousLanguage Arabic loanwords
usedIn Indonesia
Java
Sunda region
linked to: Sundaland
usedInInstitution pesantren
writingDirection right-to-left
writingSystemType consonant alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sundanese writingSystem Pegon script
Javanese writingSystem Pegon script
Madurese scriptUsedHistorically Pegon script
Jawi script closelyRelatedTo Pegon script
Banjar language usesScriptVariant Pegon script
Javanese people writingSystem Pegon script
Sundanese people writingSystem Pegon script
Cirebonese people writingSystem Pegon script
Sundanese literature writingSystem Pegon script