Lontara
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script traditionally used for the Bugis, Makassarese, and Mandar languages of Sulawesi in Indonesia
Key facts
- Script type
- Abugida
- Period
- 15th century – present
- Direction
- Left-to-right
- Languages
- Buginese , Makassarese , Mandar , (slightly modified for Bima , Ende , and Sumbawa )
- Parent systems
- Proto-Sinaitic alphabet Phoenician alphabet Aramaic alphabet Brāhmī Tamil-Brahmi Pallava Old Kawi Lontara
- Sister systems
- Balinese , Batak , Baybayin scripts , Javanese , Makasar , Old Sundanese , Rencong , Rejang
- Iso 15924
- Bugi (367) , Buginese
- Unicode alias
- Buginese
- Unicode range
- U+1A00–U+1A1F
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Lontara manuscript, LOC 0050.jpg
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- Unicode range
- U+1A00-1A1F
- inception
- 1700-00-00
- native label
- ᨒᨚᨈᨑ
- name
- bouguis
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