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Rejang ꥆꤰ꥓ꤼꤽ ꤽꥍꤺꥏ
Script type	Abugida
Period	?–present
Direction	Left-to-right
Languages	Malay,Bengkulu,Rejang
Related scripts
Parent systems	Proto-Sinaitic alphabet Phoenician alphabet Aramaic alphabet Brāhmī Tamil-Brahmi Pallava Old Kawi Ulu scripts Rejang
Sister systems	Kerinci,Lampung,Lembak,Ogan,Pasemah,Serawai
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Rjng(363), ​Rejang (Redjang, Kaganga)
Unicode
Unicode alias	Rejang
Unicode range	U+A930–U+A95F
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This article contains the Rejang script. Without properrendering support, you may seequestion marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Rejang characters.

TheRejang script is anabugida of theBrahmic family that is related to other scripts of the region, such as theBatak andLontara scripts. Rejang is also a member of the closely related group ofUlu scripts that include the script variants of South Sumatra, Bengkulu, Lembak, Lintang, Lebong, and Serawai. Other closely related scripts that are sometimes included in the Surat Ulu group include the Ogan, Kerinci, andLampung scripts. The script was in use prior to the introduction of Islam to the Rejang area; the earliest attested document appears to date from the mid-18th century CE. The Rejang script is sometimes also known as the KaGaNga script following the first three letters of the alphabet, ꤰꤱꤲ. The term KaGaNga was never used by the users of the script community, but it was coined by the British anthropologist Mervyn A. Jaspan (1926–1975) in his bookFolk literature of South Sumatra. Redjang Ka-Ga-Nga texts. Canberra, The Australian National University 1964.

The script was used to write texts in Malay andRejang, which is now spoken by about 200,000 people living inIndonesia on the island ofSumatra in the southwest highlands, northBengkulu Province, aroundArga Makmur, Muaraaman,Curup, andKepahiang, and also in the Rawas area ofSouth Sumatra Province, near Muara Kulam. There are five major dialects of Rejang: Lebong, Musi, Kebanagung, Pesisir (all in Bengkulu Province), and Rawas (in South Sumatra Province). Most of its users live in fairly remote rural areas, of whom slightly less than half are literate.

The traditional Rejang corpus consists chiefly of ritual texts, medical incantations, and poetry.

As in other Brahmic scripts, Rejang consonants have aninherent vowel[a] or[ə], so, for example, the consonant⟨ꤰ⟩ is pronouncedka orkə. Other vowels are represented by diacritics attached to a base letter. Vowel diacritics may also be attached to the base letter⟨ꥆ⟩a, which acts as a null consonant.

Consonants at the end of a syllable are also represented by diacritics. Thevirama is a "killer stroke" that suppresses any consonant's inherent vowel, leaving an isolated consonant, so, for example,⟨ꤰ⟩,ka plus a virama⟨꥓⟩,⟨ꤰ꥓⟩ is pronouncedk.

Rejang script was added to theUnicode Standard in March, 2008 with the release of version 5.1.

The Unicode block for Rejang is U+A930 –U+A95F:

• Rencong script

• https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21116-surat-ulu.pdf

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