Lontara script

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Lontara
Type Abugida
Spoken languages Buginese language
Time period 17th century–20th century
Parent systems Proto-Canaanite alphabet
 → Phoenician alphabet
  → Aramaic alphabet
   → Brāhmī
    → Pallava
     → Old Kawi
      → Lontara
Sister systems Balinese
Batak
Baybayin
Buhid
Hanunó'o
Javanese
Old Sundanese
Rejang
Tagbanwa
Unicode range U+1A00–U+1A1F
ISO 15924 Bugi
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 It has largely been replaced by the Roman alphabet due to Dutch colonization.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, the leaves of which were formerly written upon with this script.

In Buginese, this script is called "urupu sulapa eppa" which means "square letters".

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[edit] Phonology

Phonetic table of lontara consonants
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

[edit] 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)
  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 ◌ᨗ ◌ᨘ ᨙ◌ ◌ᨚ ◌ᨛ     ᨞ ᨟

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