AKSARA
Aksara (n) letter, characters. Basically, an antique way for saying ‘words’
in some traditional Indonesian Languange, and in this modernized-nowaday-world most
antique things are considered for having high values. Collectors are fighting
to get some of world’s oldest things, but how about any other old aspects like
dance, and in this case, our traditional writing system? Collectors couldn’t
snatched it away from us, but time could. So, at least know about your own
heritage, after all some knowledge will not hurt your brain.
Ensiklopedi Nusantara stated that there are three
transformation stages of aksara based on some ethnic’s languanges. There are
Aksara Palawa-Kawi, Aksara Hanacaraka, and Aksara Daerah, as a whole we call
those Aksara Nusantara. The most original aksara is
Pallawa, which is written mostly in the inscriptions. Pallawa was no longer
used because it was modified into some ethnicity languanges such as; Balinese,
Sundanese, and many others.
Each
traditional aksara has their own unique styles, which brings significant
difference from each other. According to wikipedia.com, one of the reasons is
because of the writing media that they used such as; antique Sundanese aksara
typically has this blunt corner shaped, because back then it was written
according to the palmyra leaves’ fibers as the media, meanwhile Kerinci aksara
is written with sharp corner, because it used to be written on bamboo.
It
is such as shame that nowadays we can only find Aksara Nusantara in very few
places such as museum, historical places, and street signs. No one seems to
care about how it is written, because sadly it is not relevant to our nowadays
modernized life. So, the most easiest thing to do is to speak in traditional languange or
write it with the romanize version. After all, nothing’s more beautiful than having
the confidence of showing your true
identity.
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