Editing Batak script (section)

{{Short description|Writing system used for several Batak languages}}
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{{Infobox writing system
| name        = Surat Batak
| altname     = {{Script|Batk|ᯘᯮᯒᯖ᯲ ᯅᯖᯂ᯲}}
| type        = [[Abugida]]
| languages   = [[Batak languages]]
| fam1        = [[Proto-Sinaitic alphabet]]
|footnotes=
| fam2        = [[Phoenician alphabet]]
| fam3        = [[Aramaic alphabet]]
| fam4        = [[Brāhmī script|Brāhmī]]{{efn|The detailed descent of Batak script from Brahmi is unclear. Hypotheses of [[Kawi script|Kawi]] origin or direct descent through [[Pallava script|Pallava]].|group=note}}
| fam5        = [[Pallava script]]
| fam6        = [[Kawi script]]
| sisters     = Direct family relationships is unclear. Sister scripts on hypothesis of common Kawi origin:<br/>
[[Balinese script|Balinese]]<br>[[Baybayin|Baybayin scripts]]<br>[[Javanese script|Javanese]]<br>[[Lontara script|Lontara]]<br />[[Makasar script|Makasar]]<br/>[[Old Sundanese script|Old Sundanese]]<br>[[Rencong script|Rencong]]<br />[[Rejang script|Rejang]]
| time        = c. 1300&ndash;present
| unicode     = [https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1BC0.pdf U+1BC0&ndash;U+1BFF]
| iso15924    = Batk
| sample      = Surat Batak.svg
| imagesize   = 250px
| caption     = "Surat Batak" in Toba variant.
}}
{{Writing systems in Indonesia}}
{{Contains special characters|Batak}}
{{brahmic}}

The '''Batak script''' (natively known as '''Surat Batak''', '''Surat na Sampulu Sia''' ({{lit|the nineteen letters}}), or '''Sisiasia''') is a [[writing system]] used to write the [[Austronesian languages|Austronesian]] [[Batak languages]] spoken by several million people on the [[Indonesia]]n island of [[Sumatra]]. The script may be derived from the [[Kawi script|Kawi]] and [[Pallava script]], ultimately derived from the [[Brahmi script]] of India, or from the hypothetical Proto-Sumatran script influenced by Pallava.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ulikozok.com/aksara-batak/sejarah-aksara-batak/|author=Uli Kozok|title=Sejarah Aksara Batak|access-date=17 May 2014}}</ref>