Sanskrit and Kawi loanwords in Balinese language. The consonants can be arranged into Sanskrit order and traditional order. traditional order The consonants can be arranged in traditional order. The sequence forms a poem of 4 verses narrating the myth of Aji Saka. However, the sequence only has the 18 consonants of () and exclude (). However, this table below include as the current romanization have no diacritics for the consonants. Sanskrit order As other Brahmic scripts, consonants in Balinese script can be arranged into Tamil / Sanskrit order. Thus, Balinese script had been influenced by Kalvi / Shiksha. The table below uses the order. . They are, in traditional order: ha na ca ra ka / da ta sa wa la / ma ga ba nga / pa ja ya nya. The consonant is sometimes not pronounced. For example, (lit. rain) is pronounced . The exact form of is unknown because only the appended () form is left. However, the independent form is included in Unicode. Actually an alveolar consonant, but classified as dental by tradition The former of the two letter forms is more frequently used. Vowels Vowels, called () or (), can be written as independent letters when vowels appear in initial position. They are described in the following list: and () (appended letters) and () (attached letters) should be used to represent the consonant cluster, as zero vowel signs () are not used in the middle of sentences in general. Thus, as other members of the Brahmic family (Javanese), the consonant cluster is written cursively. Each consonant letter has a corresponding either or (for , , and only) form, and the presence of and eliminates the inherent vowel of the letter it is appended to. For example, if the letter () is appended with (), the pronunciation becomes (). or can be applied with (diacritic) to a letter. However, attaching two or more to one letter is forbidden; this condition is known as (three layers). may be used in the middle of a sentence to avoid such situation. For example, with consonant cluster is written as . The forms of and are as follows: Diacritics Diacritics ( (), pronounced , also known as when referring to the Javanese script) are symbols that cannot stand by themselves. When they are attached to the independent letters, they affect the pronunciation. The three types of diacritics are , (pronounced )