of Buddhism and Hinduism to southeast Asian region because many of the major scripts of southeast Asia show South Indian Pallava script influence. The modern Javanese script, state George Campbell and Christopher Moseley, emerged in part through the modification of the Kawi script over the medieval era. This modification occurred in part via secondary forms called pasangan in Javanese, and also from changes in shape. It also shows influence of the northern and western Javanese script forms based on the Pallava Grantha script found in Tamil Nadu as well as the Arabic and Roman script with changes in theo-political control of Java and nearby islands from the 14th- to 20th-century. Examples A well-known document written in Kawi is the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, found in 1989 in Laguna de Bay near Manila, Philippines. It has inscribed on it a date of Saka era 822, corresponding to May 10, 900 AD, and is written in Old Malay containing numerous loanwords from Sanskrit and a few non-Malay vocabulary elements whose origin is ambiguous between Old Javanese and Old Tagalog. Unicode The Kawi script was added to the Unicode Standard 15.0 in September 2022 based on a proposal by Aditya Bayu Perdana and Ilham Nurwansah. An earlier preliminary proposal was submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee by Anshuman Pandey in 2012. The Unicode block for the Kawi script is U+11F00–U+11F5F and contains 86 characters: Child systems Consonants Gallery The above is a comparison of the development of Devanagari characters in Kawi, Old Mon of the kingdom of Ava, and Thai script. See also Baybayin Buhid script Filipino orthography Hanunó'o script Kawi language Tagbanwa script Vaṭṭeḻuttu script Notes References Omniglot. Kawi alphabet. Retrieved 16 May 2019 Tiongson, Jaime F., (2008). Laguna copperplate inscription: a new interpretation using early Tagalog dictionaries. Bayang Pinagpala. Retrieved January 14, 2012. 8th-century introductions Obsolete writing systems Brahmic scripts