Javanese Multilingual Lexicon with 202,912 Entries from 32 Historical Sources

Javanese Multilingual Lexicon is a dataset of 202,912 entries derived from Sastra.org, a digital archive of Javanese literary heritage maintained by Yayasan Sastra Lestari. The dataset compiles 32 historical lexicographic sources spanning from the 1830s to 2010, covering Javanese, Old Javanese (Kawi), Indonesian, Dutch, English, and French. It was authored by junwatu and last updated on Hugging Face in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Train multilingual language models for Javanese and related languages based on the lexicon's entries.
• Conduct historical linguistic analysis based on lexicographic sources spanning nearly two centuries.
• Build translation or cross-lingual retrieval tools based on the multilingual entries covering six languages.
• Study the evolution of Javanese vocabulary and orthography based on the compiled historical sources.

Strengths

• Contains 202,912 lexicon entries, providing a substantial lexical resource.
• Compiles 32 distinct historical sources, offering broad temporal and source coverage from the 1830s to 2010.
• Covers six languages: Javanese, Old Javanese (Kawi), Indonesian, Dutch, English, and French.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal and source bias inherent to the compiled historical lexicons.

Provenance

Source

Sastra.org, a digital archive of Javanese literary heritage maintained by Yayasan Sastra Lestari.

Collection Method

Derived from 32 historical lexicographic sources.

Time Range

1830s to 2010

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 13:27:57; freshness should be verified.