is one of syllable in Javanese script that represent the sound /jɔ/, /ja/. It is transliterated to Latin as "ya", and sometimes in Indonesian orthography as "yo". It has another form (''pasangan''), which is , but represented by a single Unicode code point, U+A9AA.Campbell, George L. Compendium of the World's Languages. Vol. 1. New York: Routledge, 2000.Soemarmo, Marmo. "Javanese Script." Ohio Working Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching 14.Winter (1995): 69-103.Daniels, Peter T and William Bright. The World's Writing Systems. Ed. Peter T Daniels and William Bright. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Pasangan

Its pasangan form , is located on the bottom side of the previous syllable. The pasangan only occurs if a word is ended with a consonant, and the next word starts with 'y', for example - ''anak yuyu'' (little crab). If it is located between a consonant and a vocal, it didn't form a pasangan, instead it uses a special ''panjingan'' called a pengkal (), for example - ''ampyang'' (a kind of snack).

Murda

The letter ꦪ does not have a '' murda'' form.

Glyphs

Unicode block

Javanese script was added to the

Unicode Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard, wh ...

Standard in October, 2009 with the release of version 5.2.

References

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