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A script for the ritual specialist.
The script used for the Batak languages of northern Sumatra.
Writes the Batak languages, chiefly in ritual and divinatory manuscripts.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Written and read mainly by ritual specialists rather than by the community at large, so literacy in it was an occupational skill rather than a general one.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Angular letters written on bark books folded concertina-fashion, traditionally read bottom to top.
A fuller structured visual breakdown is not yet documented for this symbol.