Writing System
Main article: Lampung Alphabet
Lampung language is written in an abugida, or alphasyllabary, called Had Lampung. It has 20 induk surat (19 consonants an one vowel), and 13 Anak Surat (diacritics). Had Lampung has been influenced by Pallava script and Arab Alphabet. Belonging to the Brahmic family of scripts, it shares similarities with the Rejang alphabet, Rencong Script, Sundanese alphabet, Old Kawi script of Java.
The Lampung Alphabet that’s used and tought today is the result from old Lampung Alphabet revision.
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