Balinese script Archives

Balinese Lontar Update

July 11, 2019 || David Kamholz

Tags: Aksara Bali, Bali Simbar font, Balinese language, Balinese script, glyphs, Internet Archive, Kahle/Austin Foundation, keyboards, Keyman, lontar palm leaf, Noto Serif Balinese font, palm leaf manuscript, Pusat Kajian Lontar, Pustaka font, transcription, typography, Udayana University, Unicode, Vimala font

In a previous post, we introduced the Balinese Lontar Project that PanLex is managing, in coordination with the Internet Archive and Udayana University. We have some exciting updates from the last two months. The team at Pusat Kajian Lontar at Udayana has given us great feedback, PanLex’s transcription platform is now live at palmleaf.org, and […]

Digitizing Balinese Literature from Lontar Palm Leaves

May 7, 2019 || Julie Anderson

Categories: News, Palm Leaves

Tags: Balinese literature, Balinese script, Internet Archive, lontar palm leaf, palm leaf manuscript, Udayana University, Unicode

In 2011, the Internet Archive photographed nearly the entire collection of Balinese palm-leaf manuscripts (130,000 leaves in all) as part of an effort to bring out of the shadows the lesser-known literatures of the world and to inspire others to do the same. These traditional Balinese texts were inscribed with a special triangular iron stylus […]