Old Sundanese script

Old Sundanese script (Sundanese: ᮃᮊ᮪ᮞᮛ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ ᮘᮥᮠᮥᮔ᮪, romanized: Aksara Sunda Buhun) is a script that developed in West Java in the 14th–18th centuries which was originally used to write Old Sundanese language. The Old Sundanese script is a development of the Pallava script which has reached the stage of modifying its distinctive form as used in lontar texts in the 16th century.

Old Sundanese script
ᮃᮊ᮪ᮞᮛ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ ᮊᮥᮔ
Aksara Sunda Buhun


Script type
Abugida
Time period
c.14th–18th centuries
DirectionLeft-to-right 
LanguagesOld Sundanese language
Cirebonese language
Related scripts
Parent systems
Child systems
Standard Sundanese script
Sister systems
Balinese
Batak
Baybayin scripts
Javanese
Lontara
Lampung
Makasar
Rencong
Rejang
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Sund (362), Sundanese
Unicode
Unicode alias
Sundanese
[a] The Semitic origin of the Brahmic scripts is not universally agreed upon.
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