[naturalist]

I have been trying to upload two pictures, first is the cover of Djawi-Indonesia written by W.J.S. Poerwadarminta (Bale Poestaka, Djakarta, 1948, i am lucky to have it, a rare book). Second is the page where koedoep (modern writing will be kudup). Unfortunately, it said i am not allowed to upload pictures.
Koedoep-kudup => in this old dictionary said as koentoem (kuntum), kuntum is a nearly blooming flower.
I could categorised myself as a group of rare Javanese that is able to speak in ngoko, madya and krama in the recent days, when so many of us at the moment could not write properly for Jawa, most of us will write Jowo.
Pronunciation is hard in Javanese language and also many Javanese in the recent day will found hard to pronounce correctly for their own language.
W.J.S Poerwadarminta was a lexicographer, i could say he was one of the founding fathers of Indonesian language.
But i totally agree with you A.G. Maisey on the evolution of languages.