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Satera Jontal: In western Sumbawa, another variant is used, called the Sumbawa script or Satera Jontal, used for the Sumbawa language. [31] Form. Letters
Sumbawa (basa Semawa; Indonesian: bahasa Sumbawa) or Sumbawarese is a Malayo-Polynesian language of the western half of Sumbawa Island, Indonesia, which it shares with speakers of Bima.
Sample of spoken Cia-Cia, recorded for Wikitongues. Cia-Cia, also known as (South) Buton or Butonese, is an Austronesian language spoken principally around the city of Baubau on the southern tip of Buton island, off the southeast coast of Sulawesi, in Indonesia. [2]
Satera Jontal script (used to write Sumbawa) Mbojo script (used to write Bima) Lota Ende script (used to write Ende) Jawi – An Arabic-based script, once widely used throughout Indonesia, now in decline but still used by Malays, Betawi, Minangkabau, Banjarese, Acehnese, Javanese, Osing, Sundanese, and Madurese.
Following the rise of South Sulawesi as a naval powerhouse in eastern archipelago, the script expanded its influence, being introduced and incorporated as the Lonta Ende in Flores, Mbojo in eastern Sumbawa and Satera Jontal in western Sumbawa, albeit with alternations for the latter languages. [86]
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The Ulu scripts, locally known as Surat Ulu ('upstream script') [1] [a] are a family of writing systems found in central and south Sumatra, in the regions of Kerinci, Bengkulu, Palembang and Lampung, Indonesia.
The Incung script (sometimes Kerinci script) is an abugida which was traditionally used to write the Kerinci language.It belongs to the group of Ulu scripts.. The Incung script is the only known indigenous script discovered in central Sumatra, related to both the Lampung script, employed in the Lampung language, and the Rencong script, used in the Rejang language of southern Sumatra.