Lontara
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.
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
Web links
- Lontara and Makasar script omniglot.com
- ISO / IEC JTC1 / SC2 / WG2 N2633R. Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set. dkuug.dk, October 5, 2003 (Lontara alphabet in Unicode)