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Aksara

The full Buginese block: 23 consonant letters, five vowel signs, two punctuation marks. Thirty code points, since Unicode 4.1.

Every consonant letter carries the inherent vowel /a/. A vowel sign replaces it.

Unicode code chart U1A00.pdf, block Buginese; 30 assigned code points since Unicode 4.1 (2005)

Rendering conformanceWords written alike

Consonant letters

GlyphLatinCodepointUnicode nameNote
kaU+1A00BUGINESE LETTER KA
gaU+1A01BUGINESE LETTER GA
ngaU+1A02BUGINESE LETTER NGA
ngkaU+1A03BUGINESE LETTER NGKAPrenasal letter — a written nasal+stop cluster.
paU+1A04BUGINESE LETTER PA
baU+1A05BUGINESE LETTER BA
maU+1A06BUGINESE LETTER MA
mpaU+1A07BUGINESE LETTER MPAPrenasal letter — a written nasal+stop cluster.
taU+1A08BUGINESE LETTER TA
daU+1A09BUGINESE LETTER DA
naU+1A0ABUGINESE LETTER NA
nraU+1A0BBUGINESE LETTER NRAPrenasal letter — a written nasal+stop cluster.
caU+1A0CBUGINESE LETTER CA
jaU+1A0DBUGINESE LETTER JA
nyaU+1A0EBUGINESE LETTER NYA
nycaU+1A0FBUGINESE LETTER NYCAPrenasal letter — a written nasal+stop cluster.
yaU+1A10BUGINESE LETTER YA
raU+1A11BUGINESE LETTER RA
laU+1A12BUGINESE LETTER LA
waU+1A13BUGINESE LETTER VA
saU+1A14BUGINESE LETTER SA
aU+1A15BUGINESE LETTER AVowel carrier — the independent vowel /a/.
haU+1A16BUGINESE LETTER HA

Vowel signs

Each sign is shown on a dotted circle (U+25CC), so its combining behaviour is visible directly rather than taken on trust from a table.

Glyphka + glyphLatinCodepointNote
◌ᨗᨀᨗki
U+1A17
Mn · ccc 230
UCD canonical combining class 230 (Above)
◌ᨘᨀᨘku
U+1A18
Mn · ccc 220
UCD canonical combining class 220 (Below)
◌ᨙᨀᨙ
U+1A19
Mc · ccc 0
Spacing combining mark; the UCD assigns no combining class. See the rendering conformance page.
Latin `é`, NOT `e`. Taken from attested pairs in data/corpus/bugwiki-pairs.json rather than from the Unicode character name: Sapéda, Sulawési, Baruné, Watamponé, Sawérigading, Éropa, Lébarepuluq and Komputeréq all write `é` with this sign. PROVISIONAL — Wikipedia is community practice, not an authority. See openQuestions.vowel-sign-e-ae.
◌ᨚᨀᨚko
U+1A1A
Mc · ccc 0
Spacing combining mark; the UCD assigns no combining class. See the rendering conformance page.
◌ᨛᨀᨛke
U+1A1B
Mn · ccc 0
Non-spacing mark, but the UCD assigns no combining class. See the rendering conformance page.
Latin `e`, NOT `ae`. `ae` came from the Unicode character name and was wrong: about thirty independent attested pairs in data/corpus/bugwiki-pairs.json write plain `e` with this sign (Bekasi, Wettu, Peddang, Jeppang, Halaleng, Balangeng, Irelang, Banjaramaseng and more). PROVISIONAL — Wikipedia is community practice, not an authority. See openQuestions.vowel-sign-e-ae.

Punctuation

GlyphCodepointUnicode nameLatin
U+1A1EBUGINESE PALLAWAunverified
U+1A1FBUGINESE END OF SECTIONunverified

A Latin representation for either mark cannot yet be cited in this repository, so it is left blank rather than guessed. See the Ejaan page.