Lontara script
Lontara |
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Spoken languages |
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Time period |
17th century–20th century |
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Parent systems |
Proto-Canaanite alphabet |
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Sister systems |
Balinese |
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Bugi |
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Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. |
The Lontara script is an Indic script traditionally used for writing several languages of Sulawesi in Indonesia such as the Bugis language, the Makassarese language, and the Mandar language (Malayo-Polynesian languages). It is also known as the Buginese script. It has largely been replaced by the Roman alphabet due to Dutch colonization. The term Lontara refers to the Palmyra palm, upon the leaves of which the script was formerly written.
In Buginese, this script is called "urupu sulapa eppa" which means "square letters".
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Phonology
Phonetic table of lontara consonants | |||||||||||
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Voicing | Labial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
Nasal | voiced | m | ᨆ | n | ᨊ | ɲ | ᨎ | ŋ | ᨂ | ||
Cluster | voiced - unvoiced | mp | ᨇ | nr | ᨋ | ɲc | ᨏ | ŋk | ᨃ | ||
Stop | voiced | b | ᨅ | d | ᨉ | g | ᨁ | ||||
unvoiced | p | ᨄ | t | ᨈ | k | ᨀ | ʔ | ᨕ | |||
Fricative and affricate | voiced | ɟ | ᨍ | ||||||||
unvoiced | s | ᨔ | c | ᨌ | h | ᨖ | |||||
Lambdal | voiced | l | ᨒ | ||||||||
Rhotal | voiced | r | ᨑ | ||||||||
Glide | unvoiced | w | ᨓ | j | ᨐ |
Buginese in Unicode
The Unicode range for Buginese is U+1A00 ... U+1A1F. Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points.
Buginese Unicode.org chart (PDF) |
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0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
U+1A0x | ᨀ | ᨁ | ᨂ | ᨃ | ᨄ | ᨅ | ᨆ | ᨇ | ᨈ | ᨉ | ᨊ | ᨋ | ᨌ | ᨍ | ᨎ | ᨏ |
U+1A1x | ᨐ | ᨑ | ᨒ | ᨓ | ᨔ | ᨕ | ᨖ | ◌ᨗ | ◌ᨘ | ᨙ◌ | ◌ᨚ | ◌ᨛ | ᨞ | ᨟ |
See also
External links
- Lontara and Makasar scripts
- Article about Buginese script in JSTOR
- Buginese script on www.ancientscripts.com
- Saweri, a font that supports only lontara script.
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