via Channel NewsAsia, 06 March 2021: A young man and his talent for languages.
Diaz Nawaksara grew up during the rise of the Internet and telecommunications.
When the 30-year-old went to college, he decided to study information management, focusing on storing information through computational methods.
But as modern as his educational qualification sounds, his job nowadays involves something very ancient: Preserving Indonesian scripts that are as old as 500 years.
“I started in 2012 by studying the Javanese script first,” Nawaksara recounted, referring to the native language of those from Indonesia’s and the world’s most populated island of Java.
Today, he can read and write over 30 ancient Indonesian scripts. He understands fluently about half of the languages associated with these scripts.
Source: This man can read and write 30 ancient Indonesian scripts, some as old as 500 years – CNA
