Lontara Bilang-bilang script

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Bilang-bilang
Script type	Abugida
Time period	17th century – present
Languages	Buginese language
Related scripts
Parent systems	Eastern Arabic numerals + i‘jām (consonants), Lontara (vowel diacritics and punctuation) Bilang-bilang
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This article contains Lontara script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Lontara characters.

Lontara Bilang-bilang is a cipher of the Lontara script, currently used for Buginese poetry. This script uses the Eastern Arabic numerals-inspired letterform to substitute the Lontara script, as a way to hide it to the Dutch at the time.^[1] It was an adaptation to a similar ciphers of the Arabic script that has been used in South Asia around the 19th century.^[2][3]