Cecarakan    Aksara Cecarakan

Cecarakan is an alternative script for writing Malay or Indonesian invented by Ali Aulia Ghozali from Indonesia. The name Cecarakan is based on the name of the Balinese alphabet, Carakan.

The Cecarakan script is divided into three parts: huruf utama ('main letters' or consonants), huruf sandangan ('attached letters') and tanda baca ('punctuation marks').

Notable features

Consonants (huruf utama)

There are 39 consonants. Each one has the inherent vowel 'a' (pronounced /a/). This inherent vowel can be modified by the huruf sandangan.

Cecarakan Main Letters (huruf utama)

Notes

Notes on the Cecarakan main letters

Attached letters (huruf sandangan)

These letters are used to modify the vowel of each consonant.

Cecarakan attached letters (<em>huruf sandangan</em>)

Punctuation marks (tanda baca)

Punctuation marks and numbers in Cecarakan are the same as in the Latin alphet, with a few extra symbols:

Cecarakan punctuation

Sample text in Cecarakan

Sample text in Cecarakan

Transliteraiton

Semua orang dilahirkan merdeka dan mempunyai martabat dan hak-hak yang sama. Mereka dikaruniai akal dan hati nurani dan hendaknya bergaul satu sama lain dalam semangat persaudaraan.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Indonesian)

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Tower of Babel in Cecarakan

More details of the Cecarakan script (PDF)

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