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A script named after a palm leaf.
Also known as: Buginese script
The script used for Buginese and Makassarese in South Sulawesi.
Writes Buginese and Makassarese as an abugida.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Historically wrote no final consonants and no gemination at all, so a reader had to supply them from context — an underspecified script that worked because its readers already knew the language well.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Angular letters of straight and diagonal strokes, named for the lontar palm leaf they were written on.