Lontara

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Lontara is a script that was used for the Buginese language (see Bugis ) and some related languages ​​such as Makassar and Mandar on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi . It is derived from the Indian scriptures and developed from the Brahmi script . During the Dutch colonial era , the script fell into disuse. The term Lontara is the Malay name for the Palmyra palm , Lontar derived whose leaves traditional for manuscripts ( palm leaf manuscripts were used). In Buginese this script is called urupu sulapa eppa , which means "four- cornered letters".

Unicode contains the Lontara script under the name "Buginese" in the range 1A00–1A1F .

structure

Lontara is written from left to right. Each consonant contains an associated, non-written vowel a. Other vowels can be written using one of five accents above, below, or to the side of a character.

Consonants in the Abugida Lontara

literature

  • Andi Zainal Abidin: Notes on the Lontara 'as Historical Sources. In: Indonesia 12, October 1971, pp. 159–172
  • Campbell Macknight: The triumph of lontara '. (Paper) International Workshop on Endangered Scripts of Island Southeast Asia. Research Institute for Languages ​​and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, February 27 - March 1, 2014

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