Posted on under buginese, discussing lontara, script, and whatnot.
Intro
Lontara script is the traditional script of various Sulawesi nations, eg. Buginese and Makassarese. Orthographically speaking, Lontara falls into the abugida type of scripts. It works basically like Indian Devanagari and Javanese Hanacaraka among others.
The Script
How to Read
1st line: lontara
2nd line: US keyboard projection of Windows Buginese characters
3rd line: pronunciation
Consonants
ᨀ - ᨁ - ᨂ - ᨃ
k - g - x - f
ka - ga - nga - ngka
ᨄ - ᨅ - ᨆ - ᨇ
p - b - m - M
pa - ba - ma - mpa
ᨈ - ᨉ - ᨊ - ᨋ
t - d - n - N
ta - da - na - nra
ᨌ - ᨍ - ᨎ - ᨏ
c - j - z - w
ca - ja - nya - nca
ᨐ - ᨑ - ᨒ - ᨓ
y - r - l - v
ya - ra - la - wa
ᨔ - ᨕ - ᨖ
s - a - h
sa - a - ha
Vowels
ᨔᨗ - ᨔᨘ - ᨔᨙ - ᨔᨚ - ᨔᨛ
(with ᨔ /sa/ as the placeholder occupying the consonant position)
i - u - e - o - q
i - u - e - o - strong schwa sound
Keyboard Layout
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| Fig. 1. US keyboard layout for Buginese language on Windows 11. |
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| Fig. 2. US keyboard layout with SHIFT for Buginese language on Windows 11. |
Activating the Buginese language feature of Windows 11 is pretty straightforward. Just go to Settings > Time & language > Language & region and add Buginese as one of your preferred languages.