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 Rencong 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 It has largely been replaced by the Roman alphabet due to Dutch colonization.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, upon the leaves of which the script was formerly written.

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

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
Stop	unvoiced	p	ᨄ	t	ᨈ			k	ᨀ	ʔ	ᨕ
Fricative and affricate	voiced					ɟ	ᨍ
Fricative and affricate	unvoiced			s	ᨔ	c	ᨌ			h	ᨖ
Lambdal	voiced			l	ᨒ
Rhotal	voiced			r	ᨑ
Glide	unvoiced	w	ᨓ			j	ᨐ

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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