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Lontara or lontaraq () are Bugis-Makassar palm-leaf manuscripts that record knowledge on such topics as
Historical texts as social maps: Lontaraq bilang in early modern Makassar
Indonesian manuscripts {{Indonesia-stub
Lontara or lontaraq () are Bugis-Makassar palm-leaf manuscripts that record knowledge on such topics as history
History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...
, science
Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...
, custom, and law
Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the ar ...
s. The term originates from the Javanese/ Malay word ''lontar'', which is the name of the palm tree ''Borassus flabellifer
''Borassus flabellifer'', commonly known as doub palm, palmyra palm, tala or tal palm, toddy palm, lontar palm, wine palm, or ice apple, is a fan palm native to South Asia (especially in Bangladesh, East India, and South India) and Southeast As ...
'' that provides the leaves used.
The types of lontara includes
# ''attoriolong'' ( bug) ''patturioloang'' ( mak) – history
# ''bilang'' or ''kotika'' ( bug- mak) – characteristics of each day of the week
# ''ade'' ( bug) or ''ada'' ( mak) – adat
Alesis Digital Audio Tape, commonly referred to as ADAT, is a magnetic tape format used for the Sound recording and reproduction, recording of eight digital audio tracks onto the same S-VHS tape used by consumer VCRs, and the basis of a serie ...
# ''ulu ada'' ( bug) or ''ulu kana'' ( mak) – past treaties or texts between kingdoms or countries
# ''alopi-lopping'' ( bug) – shipping adat
# ''pangoriseng'' ( bug) or ''pannossorang'' ( mak) – genealogies of the royals.
See also
*Lontara script
The Lontara script (), also known as the Bugis script, Bugis-Makassar script, or Urupu Sulapa’ Eppa’ "four-cornered letters", is one of Indonesia's traditional scripts developed in the South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi region. The script is ...
* Buginese language
Buginese or Bugis (Buginese: ) is a language spoken by about 4 million people mainly in the southern part of Sulawesi, Indonesia.
History
The word Buginese derives from the word ''Bugis'' in Malay. In Buginese, it is called while the Bugis ...
References
External links
Historical texts as social maps: Lontaraq bilang in early modern Makassar
Indonesian manuscripts {{Indonesia-stub