Javanese writing system

Looks nice and neat.

There are people whose able to read this? I am Indonesian, and this is the second time I hear people mention carakan, but the first time I see it. You know malioboro street sign? Is that carakan? How about Pallawa, it's from South India too?

It is a very elegant script when you see it written but quite hard to read because so many of the shapes are rather similar and also some have rather different forms at the beginnings and the ends of words and also when they are used in combination. As a calligrapher, I have always been fascinated by the different scripts that people have developed to write their languages. As you say, the Javanese (and Balinese) script was derived from Sanscrit, which was also the ancestor of most of the modern Indian scripts as well as Tibetan (which is written in vertical columns), but it's difficult now to see how all of these scripts are related. It's sad that, in many cases, these beautiful ways of writing have been replaced with Latin letters but perhaps it makes it easier for people to read and write their own language and certainly makes it easier for foreigners to learn the language.

That looks a little less complicated than what's popular in Japan today. But, I couldn't read that, or anything Japanese even if I wanted to.

Very interesting. Is it not taught in school? That would be a pity if it isn't.

Very interesting to learn about this.