Rejang alphabet
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| Rejang ꥆꤰ꥓ꤼꤽ ꤽꥍꤺꥏ | ||
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Time period | ?–present | |
| Direction | Left-to-right Unicode range | U+A930–U+A95F |
[a] The Semitic origin of the Brahmic scripts is not universally agreed upon. | ||
| Brahmic scripts |
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| The Brahmi script and its descendants |
The Rejang script is an
Lampung scripts
. The script was in use prior to the introduction of Islam to the Rejang area; the earliest attested document appears to date from the mid-18th century CE. The Rejang script is sometimes also known as the KaGaNga script following the first three letters of the alphabet. The term KaGaNga was never used by the users of the script community, but it was coined by the British anthropologist Mervyn A. Jaspan (1926–1975) in his book Folk literature of South Sumatra. Redjang Ka-Ga-Nga texts. Canberra, The Australian National University 1964.
The script was used to write texts in Malay and
Kepahiang, and also in the Rawas area of South Sumatra Province, near Muara Kulam
. There are five major dialects of Rejang: Lebong, Musi, Kebanagung, Pesisir (all in Bengkulu Province), and Rawas (in South Sumatra Province). Most of its users live in fairly remote rural areas, of whom slightly less than half are literate.
The traditional Rejang corpus consists chiefly of ritual texts, medical incantations, and poetry.
Letters
Letters of the script can be found in the inscription below:[1][2]
Letters with IPA
The script's diacritics are attached here to the base letter a (ꥆ) to disambiguate similar ones if the base letter isn't used, like in the case with /i/, /u/, /əu̯/, and /ɛa̯/. Exception for the virama, in which its base letter is ka (ꤰ).
| Rejang alphabet with pronunciation in IPA[3] | ||||||||||||||||
| Rejang | ꤰ | ꤱ | ꤲ | ꤳ | ꤴ | ꤵ | ꤶ | ꤷ | ꤸ | ꤹ | ꤺ | ꤻ | ꤼ | ꤽ | ꤾ | ꤿ |
| IPA | [k] | [ɡ] | [ŋ] | [ t ]
|
[ d ]
|
[ n ]
|
[p] | [b] | [m] | [c] | [ɟ] | [ɲ] | [s] | [ r ]
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[ l ]
|
[j] |
| Rejang | ꥀ | ꥁ | ꥂ | ꥃ | ꥄ | ꥅ | ꥆ | ꥆꥇ | ꥆꥈ | ꥆꥉ | ꥆꥊ | ꥆꥋ | ꥆꥌ | ꥆꥍ | ꥆꥎ | ꥆꥏ |
| IPA | [w] | [h] | [mb] | [ŋg] | [ d ]
|
[ɲɟ] | [a], [ə] | [i], [ɪ] | [u], [ʊ] | [ɛ], [e] | [ai̯] | [o], [ɔ] | [au̯] | [əu̯] | [ɛa̯] | final [ŋ] |
| Rejang | ꥆꥐ | ꥆꥑ | ꥆꥒ | ꤰ꥓ | ||||||||||||
| IPA | final [ n ]
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final [ r ]
|
final [ʔ] | (no vowel) | ||||||||||||
See also
- Rencong script
References
- ^ Crawfurd, John. (1820). History of the Indian Archipelago (vol. 2).
- ^ Everson, Michael. (2006). Proposal for encoding the Rejang script in the BMP of the UCS.
- ^ Omniglot. Rejang. Retrieved 23 March 2019.