Alphabets

Jennifer Lindsay*

Indonesia possesses many unique scripts for its indigenous languages, but the Indonesian language is written in the romanized alphabet. In the history of Indonesian as Malay, though, the language has been written in other ways: first in an Indian script, Pallava; then from the 14th century in a modified Arabic script; and since the 17th century and later with European-style education, in the same romanized alphabet we use for Eng

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