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A script with no final consonants.
Also known as: Old Makassarese script
The script used for Makassarese in South Sulawesi before the Lontara script displaced it.
Wrote Makassarese in South Sulawesi.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Could not write final consonants or gemination at all, so a written word was frequently ambiguous between several spoken ones and the reader resolved it from context — the same underspecification as Lontara, which replaced it and shares the defect.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Angular letters of few strokes, written left to right, with no way of writing a final consonant or a geminate.