Lontara Bilang-bilang
| Bilang-bilang | |
|---|---|
| Script type | |
Period | 17th century – present |
| Languages | Buginese language |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Eastern Arabic numerals + i‘jām (consonants), Lontara (vowel diacritics and punctuation)
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Lontara Bilang-bilang is a cipher of the Lontara script, currently used for Buginese poetry. This script uses the Eastern Arabic numerals-inspired letterform to substitute the Lontara script, as a way to hide it to the Dutch at the time. It was an adaptation to a similar ciphers of the Arabic script that has been used in South Asia around the 19th century.