to appear in some late Kawi varieties.
* Texts are written left to right in scriptio continua, although a number of decorative texts are written in a unique bottom to top vertical direction.

Some idiosyncratic characteristics of Kawi script (which are often more apparent in non-Sanskrit texts) include:
* Presence of dependent vowel diacritics to represent short mid central vowel /?/ and long counterpart /?:/ . These diacritics are not present