Pa (Javanese) Explained

Nama:	ꦥ
Alias:	pa
Aksara:	Javanese
Fonem:	[p]
Latin:	pa
Unicode:	A9A5
Pasangan:	Jawa Pa Pasangan.png

is one of syllable in Javanese script that represent the sound /pɔ/, /pa/. It is transliterated to Latin as "pa", and sometimes in Indonesian orthography as "po". It has another form (pasangan), which is, but represented by a single Unicode code point, U+A9A5.^[1] ^[2] ^[3]

Pasangan

Its pasangan form, is one of six pasangan that's located on the right hand side of the previous syllable. Therefore, it is allowed to write two pasangan at the time without having to resort to use pangkon (꧀).

The location of the sandhangan ꦶ, ꦼ, or ꦁ is on top the pasangan, not on the previous syllable. (See glyph table below)

Extended form

The letter has a murda form, which is .

Using cecak telu, the syllable represents /f/.

with a cerek is called Pa cerek.

Unicode block

See main article: Javanese (Unicode block). Javanese script was added to the Unicode Standard in October, 2009 with the release of version 5.2.

Notes and References

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.