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The Lontara script (ᨒᨚᨈᨑ), [a] also known as the Bugis script, Bugis-Makassar script, or Urupu Sulapa’ Eppa’ "four-cornered letters", is one of Indonesia's traditional scripts developed in the South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi region. The script is primarily used to write the Buginese language, followed by Makassarese and Mandar.
Everson, Michael (2003-10-05), Revised final proposal for encoding the Lontara (Buginese) script in the UCS L2/13-011 Moore, Lisa (2013-02-04), "Consensus 134-C4", UTC #134 Minutes , Change the general category and bidi class of U+1A1B BUGINESE VOWEL SIGN AE to "Mn" and "NSM", for Unicode 6.3.
The word Buginese derives from the word Bahasa Bugis in Malay. In Buginese, it is called Basa Ugi while the Bugis people are called To Ugi. According to a Buginese myth, the term Ugi is derived from the name to the first king of Cina, an ancient Bugis kingdom, La Sattumpugi. To Ugi basically means 'the followers of La Sattumpugi'. [2]
English: An Arabic, Malay, and Sundanese dictionary. قاموس عربية ملايو سوندا. Kamus kecil قاموس كچيل. Published in 1890. The author was Sayyid Uthmān ibn ʻAbdallāh ibn ʻAqīl ibn Yaḥyā Al-ʻAlawī, سيد عثمان بن عبد الله بن عقيل بن يحيى العلوي d.1914 who self published his works on his own lithographic press in Batavia.
It is a member of the South Sulawesi group of the Austronesian language family, and thus closely related to, among others, Buginese, also known as Bugis. The areas where Makassarese is spoken include the Gowa , Sinjai , Maros , Takalar , Jeneponto , Bantaeng , Pangkajene and Islands , Bulukumba , and Selayar Islands Regencies, and Makassar .
[10] [11] Most Bugis people speak a distinct regional language called Bugis (Basa Ugi) in addition to Indonesian. The Bugis language belongs to the South Sulawesi language group; other members include Makassarese, Torajan, Mandarese [12] and Massenrempulu. The name Bugis is an exonym which represents an older form of the name; (To) Ugi is the ...
The Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI ; lit. ' Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language ' ) is the official dictionary of the Indonesian language compiled by Language Development and Fostering Agency and published by Balai Pustaka .
Gamelan Son of Lion, a Javanese-style iron American gamelan based in New York City that is devoted to new music, playing in SoHo, Manhattan.. Gamelan, the traditional ensemble music native to Java and Bali made up predominantly of percussive instruments, especially metallophones.