The medium for Lontara writing has historically been on palm leaves. As a result, older manuscripts are harder to find and it is difficult to determine the evolution and exact origins of this writing. Today, this writing system is used for ceremonial purposes such as wedding ceremonies. It is also used for printing traditional Buginese literature.
Lontara
Hikayat Amir Hamzah written in Makassar using Lontara
By Unknown author - https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2018/06/two-makasar-manuscripts-now-digitised.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=88031552
Unicode Chart 
Maps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lontara_script
DISCLAIMER: This script is still being researched
Data
| Alternate Names | Bugis, Bugis-Makassar, Urupu Sulapa Eppa (Four-cornered letters), Buginese |
|---|---|
| ISO 15924 | Bugi 367 |
| Type | Abugida |
| Family | Insular Southeast Asian |
| Direction | LtR |
| Diacritics | Yes |
| Contextual Forms | No |
| Capitals Used | No |
| Glyphs | 23 |
| Inventor | Unknown |
| Earliest Location | South Sulawesi, Indonesia |
| Earliest Date | 1667 CE |
| Latest Date | Present |
| Ancestry |
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Overview
Bibliography
| Author | Year | Publication | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| (translated and edited by) Macknight; Paeni, Mukhlis, and Hadrawi, Muhlis | 2020 | The Bugis chronicle of bone | ANU Press |
| Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia | 2015 | Bugis | Encyclopedia Britannica |
| Coulmas, Florian | 1999 | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 34-58 | Blackwell Publishing |
| Kuipers, Joel and Ray McDermott | 1996 | The World's Writing Systems, Insular Southeast Asian Scripts, 474-484 | Oxford University Press |
| Macknight, Campbell C. | 2016 | The media of Bugis literacy: A coda to Pelras. In Orality, writing and history: The literature of the Bugis and Makasar of South Sulawesi, ed. Druce, S. C., 53–72 | International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies 12 (Supp. 1) |