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Javanese literature
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major reference
- In Southeast Asian arts: Malaysia and Indonesia
…region in the 14th century, Javanese had been the language of culture; afterward, during the Islamic period, Malay became the most important language—and still more so under later Dutch colonial rule so that, logically, it was recognized in 1949 as the official Indonesian language by the newly independent Republic of…
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Bible translation
- In biblical literature: Non-European versions
…was rendered into Tahitian and Javanese in 1829 and into Hawaiian and Low Malay in 1835. By 1854 the whole Bible had appeared in all but the last of these languages as well as in Rarotonga (1851).
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Indonesian literatures
- In Indonesian literatures
…quality are the literatures in Javanese and Malay.
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