Claim: The Javanese script, one of Indonesia's traditional scripts from the mid-15th Century CE does not have a short Sandhangan Swara -a.
Evidence: The Javanese script, natively known as Aksara Jawa, Hanacaraka, Carakan, and Dentawyanjana, is one of Indonesia's traditional scripts developed on the island of Java. Javanese script was actively used by the Javanese people for writing day-to-day and literary texts from at least mid-15th Century CE until the mid-20th Century CE, before its function was gradually supplanted by the Latin alphabet. Sandhangan Swara - -