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Old 25th May 2006, 08:11 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by doecon
Yep agree probably Sumatra, the inscriptions are probably made in Batak script. But its a bit hard to read, and I think you posted it upside down:0
my batak is a bit rusty luckily my golok isn't

batak is written vertically bottom to top, so it looks like it should be rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise & could be '?' bi jang bi ja - the first thing does not look like any of the karo, tobi, mandaling or daira batak characters, but may be an artifact or a bad strike. the next appears to be a bad ba with its 'i' diacritical. i of course could be wrong. especially as i don't know the language....

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