About half of the words of old Javanese Language come from Sanskrit

Source: – True Indology / Twitter.

Almost 50% of the words(around 12,500 out of 25,500) of Indonesia's Old Javanese language come from Sanskrit

Today Java is distant island and demographically 90% Muslim

There was a time Indonesians loved Sanskrit so much that Sanskrit words found today even in their basic vocab pic.twitter.com/ujOqqMsmuw

— True Indology (@TrueIndology) May 6, 2018

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