Department of Linguistics

This is a proposal to encode the Buginese script in the international character encoding standard Unicode. The script was published in Unicode Standard version 4.1 in March 2005. The Buginese script, also known as Lontara, is attested at least in the 14c CE. It is used on Sulawesi in Indonesia to write the Buginese language. Earlier it was also used to write the Makasar, Bimanese, and Madura languages.