01OVERVIEW
Front Matter
SCRIPT · PROFILE
Buginese (Lontara)
Bugis sailors of the 17th–18th centuries were the finest navigators in Southeast Asia.
Bugis sailors of the 17th–18th centuries were the finest navigators in Southeast Asia. Their voyages to Malaysia, the Philippines, and northern Australia were recorded in this Lontara script. Some etymologists suggest the English word "bugbear" derives from the terror Bugis pirates inspired in European sailors.
04SPECIMEN
The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Unicode
Range 1U+1A00–U+1A1F
Total signs30
Unicode Blocks
Not in Unicode
No Unicode block data available for this script.
Glyph evolution
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06MECHANICS
Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
Written left to right.
α
System
Abugida
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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07LINEAGE
The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Ancestors & descendants
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
08REACH