Lontara Bilang-bilang script
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Lontara Bilang-bilang is a cipher of the Lontara script, currently used for Buginese poetry. This script uses the Eastern Arabic numerals-inspired letterform to substitute the Lontara script, as a way to hide it to the Dutch at the time.[1] It was an adaptation to a similar ciphers of the Arabic script that has been used in South Asia around the 19th century.[2][3]
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Time period | 17th century – present |
Languages | Buginese language |
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Parent systems | Eastern Arabic numerals + i‘jām (consonants), Lontara (vowel diacritics and punctuation)
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