Rencong alphabet

Rencong
Type	Abugida
Languages	Besemah, Lampung, Rejang, Serawai, and others
Time period	c. 13th–19th century; 21st century
Parent systems	Proto-Sinaitic alphabet Phoenician alphabet Aramaic alphabet Brāhmī Pallava Old Kawi Rencong
Sister systems	Balinese Batak Baybayin Kulitan Buhid Hanunó'o Javanese Lontara Old Sundanese Rejang Tagbanwa
Unicode range	U+A930–U+A95F
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols.

Detail of a Kerinci Rencong manuscript (KITLV Or. 239).The text reads (Voorhoeve's spelling): "haku manangis ma / njaru ka'u ka'u di / saru tijada da / tang [hitu hadik sa]", which is translated by Voorhoeve as: "I am weeping, calling you; though called, you do not come" (hitu adik sa- is the rest of 4th line]

Rencong alphabet (Kerinci)

Rencong script is a writing system used to write Malay in central and southern Sumatra (Kerinci, Bengkulu, Palembang and Lampung). The script lasted until the 18th century which was before the Dutch colonised Indonesia. It was gradually replaced by the Jawi script, a slightly modified Arabic script.

The Malay used Rencong or Rencang script, Kawi script and Lampung script in ancient times. Studies showed that these writings are related to the ancient Cambodian writings. The script is also related to the Batak script.

Rencong script was written on tree bark, bamboo, horns and palmyra-palm leaves.

Unicode

Rencong alphabet is available in the Unicode Standard.

Block

The Unicode block for Rencong is U+A930 ... U+A95F. Grey areas in the chart below indicate non-assigned code points:

Rencong Unicode.org chart (PDF)

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U+A93x

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U+A94x

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Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 6.1

See also

• Rejang script