Makasar script

Makasar Script Jangang-jangang 𑻪𑻢𑻪𑻢
Script type	Abugida
Time period	17th – 19th century AD
Direction	Left-to-right
Languages	Makassarese language
Related scripts
Parent systems	Proto-Sinaitic alphabet Phoenician alphabet Aramaic alphabet Brāhmī Pallava Kawi Makasar Script
Sister systems	Balinese Batak Baybayin scripts Javanese Lontara Old Sundanese Rencong Rejang
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Maka (366), ​Makasar
Unicode
Unicode alias	Makasar
Unicode range	U+11EE0–U+11EFF
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The Makasar script, also known as Ukiri' Jangang-jangang (bird's script) or Old Makasar script, is a historical Indonesian writing system that was used in South Sulawesi to write the Makassarese language between the 17th and 19th centuries until it was supplanted by the Lontara Bugis script.^[1][2]

The Makasar script is an abugida which consists of 18 basic characters. Like other Brahmic scripts, each letter represents a syllable with an inherent vowel /a/, which can be changed with diacritics. The direction of writing is left to right. This script is written without wordspacing (scriptio continua) and with little to no punctuation. "Coda syllables", or consonants at the end of syllables, are not written in the Makasar script, so a Makasar text can contain a lot of ambiguity which can only be distinguished from context.