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Majapahit's Javanese Language: The Empire's Living Tongue
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how the Javanese language shaped and was shaped by the Majapahit Empire. From the Old Javanese of the Nagarakretagama to the everyday speech of Trowulan's markets, language was the empire's living artery. They discuss the role of Sanskrit in courtly poetry, the pragmatic shift to Javanese in inscriptions, and the diaspora communities that carried the language across the archipelago. They also touch on the keris as a 'speaking' artifact and the legacy of Javanese loanwords in modern Indonesian. The episode reveals how a language, not…
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