Balinese
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indigenous script of Balinese used in Bali
Key facts
- Script type
- Abugida
- Period
- 914 CE – present
- Direction
- Left-to-right
- Languages
- Balinese , Old Javanese , Sanskrit , Sasaknese , Malay , Indonesian , Balinese Malay
- Parent systems
- Egyptian Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician Aramaic Brahmi script Tamil-Brahmi Pallava Old Kawi Balinese script
- Sister systems
- Batak , Baybayin scripts , Javanese , Lontara , Makasar , Old Sundanese , Rencong , Rejang , Sasak
- Iso 15924
- Bali (360) , Balinese
- Unicode alias
- Balinese
- Unicode range
- U+1B00 – U+1B7F
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- writing system
- Based on
- Kawi script
- Image
- Bali-lontar-Kemenuh-Kawruhan Desti ring Raga-70.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Balinese script
- Commons category
- Balinese script
- Unicode range
- U+1B00-1B7F
- inception
- 1000-00-00
- name
- balinais
- native label
- ᬅᬓ᭄ᬱᬭᬩᬮᬶ
- language of work or name
- Sasak
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Encyclopedic overview
Writing systems used in Indonesia
Abugida (Brahmic)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Balinese” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.