Makasar script

Makasar Script
Jangang-jangang
𑻪𑻢𑻪𑻢
Script type
Time period
17th – 19th century AD
DirectionLeft-to-right Edit this on Wikidata
LanguagesMakassarese language
Related scripts
Parent systems
Sister systems
Balinese
Batak
Baybayin scripts
Javanese
Lontara
Old Sundanese
Rencong
Rejang
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Maka (366), ​Makasar
Unicode
Unicode alias
Makasar
U+11EE0–U+11EFF
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The Makasar script, also known as Ukiri' Jangang-jangang (bird's script) or Old Makasar script, is a historical Indonesian writing system that was used in South Sulawesi to write the Makassarese language between the 17th and 19th centuries until it was supplanted by the Lontara Bugis script.[1][2]

The Makasar script is an abugida which consists of 18 basic characters. Like other Brahmic scripts, each letter represents a syllable with an inherent vowel /a/, which can be changed with diacritics. The direction of writing is left to right. This script is written without wordspacing (scriptio continua) and with little to no punctuation. "Coda syllables", or consonants at the end of syllables, are not written in the Makasar script, so a Makasar text can contain a lot of ambiguity which can only be distinguished from context.

  1. ^ Jukes 2019, pp. 49.
  2. ^ Pandey, Anshuman (2015-11-02). "Proposal for encoding the Makassar script in Unicode" (PDF). Iso/Iec Jtc1/Sc2/Wg2 (L2/15–233). Unicode.