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Front Matter
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.
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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
Form change over time
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Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
왼쪽에서 오른쪽으로 표기.
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System
Abugida
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Descendants of hieroglyphs
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
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