di cap kerajaannya Sisingamangaraja kan ada terlihat huruf Arab, mungkin
dari pengaruh Arab melayu (huruf JaWI)
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, anton john hartomo wrote:
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> Batak alphabet Origin
> The Batak alphabet, or surat batak, is descended ultimately from the from Brahmi
> script of ancient India by way of the Pallava and Old Kawi scripts.
> Notable features
> Batak is a syllabic alphabet - each consonant (aksara) has an inherent vowel.
> Other vowels or the absence of vowels can be indicated using diacritics which appear
> above, below or after the consonant letter.
> Batak is traditionally written from bottom to top in vertical columns running
> from left to right on strips of bamboo held together with string.
> Used to write:
> The Batak languages of northern Sumatra - Karo Batak, Toba Batak, Dairi Batak,
> Simalungun/Timur, Angkola and Mandailing Batak, and occasionally Malay. In most
> Batak communities, only the datu (priests) are able to read and write the Batak
> alphabet and they use it mainly for calendars and magical texts.
>
> There are slight variations in the letters and vowel diacritics used to write each
> language.
> Karo Batak syllabic alphabet
> Karo Batak is an Austronesian language with about 600,000 speaks in the central and
> northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
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> Vowel diacritics with ka
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> Toba Batak syllabic alphabet
> Dairi Batak, which is also known as Batak Toba and Batta, is an Austronesian
> language spoken by about 2 million people in the northern part of the Indonesian
> island of Sumatra.
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> Vowel diacritics with ka
>
> Dairi Batak syllabic alphabet
> Dairi Batak, which is also known as Dairi, Pakpak and Pakpak Dairi, is an
> Austronesian language with about 1.2 million speakers in the northern part of the
> Indonesian island of Sumatra.
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>
> Vowel diacritics with ka
>
> Simalungun/Timur syllabic alphabet
> Simalungun, which is also known as Timur and Simelungan, is an Austronesian language
> spoken by about 800,000 people in the northern part of the Indonesian island of
> Sumatra.
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>
> Vowel diacritics with ka
>
> Mandaling Batak syllabic alphabet
> Mandaling Batak or Batta is an Austronesian language with about 400,000 speakers in
> the northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
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>
> Vowel diacritics with ka
>
> Note
> The fonts used on this page were created by Dr Uli Kozok of The University of
> Hawai'i at Manoa.
> Links
> Further information about Batak (includes free Batak fonts)
> http://www.hawaii.edu/indolang/surat
> Other syllabic alphabets
> Ahom, Balinese, Batak, Bengali, Brahmi, Buhid, Burmese, Cham, Dehong Dai/Tai Le,
> Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Hanuno'o, Hmong, Javanese, Kannada,
> Kharosthi, Khmer, Lao, Lepcha, Limbu, Lontara/Makasar, Malayalam, Manpuri, Modi,
> Oriya, Phags-pa, Ranjana, Redjang, Sharda, Siddham, Sinhala, Sorang Sompeng,
> Soyombo, Syloti Nagri, Tagalog, Tagbanwa, Tai Dam, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan,
> Tocharian, Varang Kshiti
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