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Northern Brahmic. Southern Brahmic. v. t. e. Hanunoo ( IPA: [hanunuʔɔ] ), also rendered Hanunó'o, is one of the scripts indigenous to the Philippines and is used by the Mangyan peoples of southern Mindoro to write the Hanunó'o language. [1] [2] It is an abugida descended from the Brahmic scripts, closely related to Sulat Tagalog, and is ...
Hanunó'o (ᜱᜨᜳᜨᜳᜢ) Hanunó'o is a Philippine language spoken in Mindoro in the Philippines, mainly in Mindoro Oriental Province and Mindoro Occidental Province. In the year 2010 there were about 25,100 Hanunó'o speakers. Hanunó'o is also known as Hanonoo, Hanunoo-Mangyan or Mangyan. Dialects include Gubatnon, Binli, Kagankan ...
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Jan 8, 2024 · Writing the Hanunó’o script on bamboo with a knife is not merely a mechanical act; it is an intimate and artistic expression of the Mangyan people’s cultural practices and identity. Reading the Hanunó’o script also requires specific techniques. The characters of the script are read vertically, from top to bottom, and from left to right.
Hanunuo Mangyan language and extensively studied the archaic language of the ambahan. He was able to transcribe and translate into English the ambahans inscribed on bamboos. 21st Century. The youth and the Mangyan Scripts. Today, the Hanunuo and Buhid Mangyan syllabic scripts, including the ambahan, are in danger of vanishing.
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More than 10 years after his seminal book, Treasure of a Minority, Postma published a book, Mga Ambahan-Mangyan, which contains the 261 ambahans of his Treasure collection, written in the Hanunuo-Mangyan Script, transliterated into Latin alphabet with English translation (1989).
The 7,000 Hanun ó o (Bulalakao, Hampangan, Hanono-o, Mangyan) live in an area of 800 square kilometers at the southern end of Mindoro Island (12 ° 30 ′ N, 121 ° 10 ′ E), in the Philippines. They speak an Austronesian language, and most are literate, using an Indic-derived script that they write on bamboo.
