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Lontara script

The Lontara script (.mw-parser-output .script-lontara{font-family:LontaraOT,Saweri,"Leelawadee UI","Noto Sans Buginese",FreeSerif,Code2000}ᨒᨚᨈᨑ), also known as the Bugis script, Bugis-Makassar script, or Urupu Sulapa’ Eppa’ "four-cornered letters", is one of Indonesia's traditional scripts developed in the South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi region. The…

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Direction
Left-to-right
Languages
Buginese, Makassarese, Mandar, (slightly modified for Bima, Ende, and Sumbawa)
Parent systems
Phoenician alphabetAramaic alphabetBrāhmīTamil-BrahmiPallavaOld KawiLontara · Aramaic alphabetBrāhmīTamil-BrahmiPallavaOld KawiLontara · BrāhmīTamil-BrahmiPallavaOld KawiLontara · Tamil-BrahmiPallavaOld KawiLontara · PallavaOld KawiLontara
Period
15th century – present
Script type
Abugida
Sister systems
Balinese Batak Baybayin scripts Javanese Makasar Old Sundanese Rencong Rejang

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History

Usage

Ambiguity

Variants

Form

Cipher

Sample texts

Unicode

Comparison with Old Makassar script

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Lontara script

Nodes73
Edges72
Triples124
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.027397
Components1

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Lontara script

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related to Usage · 23
Lontara script → Bima, Buginese, Bugis, Bugis-Makassar, Compared, Due, Each, Ende, Even, Flores Island, In, Lontara, Makassar, Makassarese, Mandar, Most Lontara, South Sulawesi, Sulawesi, Sumbawa Island, The
related to Novel coda diacritics · 17
Lontara script → Anshuman Pandey, As, Bima, Bugis-Makassar, Djirong Basang, Ende, However, In, Latin, Lontara, Makassar, Nurhayati Rahman, Other Bugis, Some Bugis, Such, The, Users
related to Contemporary use · 15
Lontara script → After, An, As, Boddia, Daeng Rahman, For, Galesong, However, In, Lontara, Makassar, Old Lontara, South Sulawesi, Sufficient, William Cummings
related to Ambiguity · 13
Lontara script → Another, Arabic, As, Bugis, Cummings, Even, For, Given, In, Jukes, Lontara, Makassar, This
related to Cipher · 10
Lontara script → Afghanistan, Arabic, Diacritics, In, Lontara, Lontara Bilang-bilang, Pakistan, Similar, South Asian, When
related to Variants · 10
Lontara script → An, Bima, Ende, Flores, In, Lontara, Lota Ende, Mbojo, Satera Jontal, Sumbawa
related to External links · 8
Lontara script → Archived, Bima, Lontara, Makasar, Proposal, This, Truetype-only, Wayback Machine
Parent systems · 7
Lontara script → Aramaic alphabetBrāhmīTamil-BrahmiPallavaOld KawiLontara, BrāhmīTamil-BrahmiPallavaOld KawiLontara, Lontara, Old KawiLontara, PallavaOld KawiLontara, Phoenician alphabetAramaic alphabetBrāhmīTamil-BrahmiPallavaOld KawiLontara, Tamil-BrahmiPallavaOld KawiLontara
Direction · 1
Lontara script → Left-to-right
ISO 15924 · 1
Lontara script → .mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}Bugi (367), ​Buginese

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lontara script used bugis south sulawesi makassar also written texts buginese diacritics letters one may language traditional century writing text

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Lontara scriptDirectionLeft-to-right1.00infobox
Lontara scriptISO 15924.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}Bugi (367), ​Buginese1.00infobox
Lontara scriptLanguagesBuginese, Makassarese, Mandar, (slightly modified for Bima, Ende, and Sumbawa)1.00infobox
Lontara scriptParent systemsPhoenician alphabetAramaic alphabetBrāhmīTamil-BrahmiPallavaOld KawiLontara1.00infobox
Lontara scriptParent systemsAramaic alphabetBrāhmīTamil-BrahmiPallavaOld KawiLontara1.00infobox
Lontara scriptParent systemsBrāhmīTamil-BrahmiPallavaOld KawiLontara1.00infobox
Lontara scriptParent systemsTamil-BrahmiPallavaOld KawiLontara1.00infobox
Lontara scriptParent systemsPallavaOld KawiLontara1.00infobox
Lontara scriptParent systemsOld KawiLontara1.00infobox
Lontara scriptParent systemsLontara1.00infobox
Lontara scriptPeriod15th century – present1.00infobox
Lontara scriptScript typeAbugida1.00infobox
Lontara scriptSister systemsBalinese Batak Baybayin scripts Javanese Makasar Old Sundanese Rencong Rejang1.00infobox
Lontara scriptUnicode aliasBuginese1.00infobox
Lontara scriptUnicode rangeU+1A00–U+1A1F1.00infobox

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