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The ambahan was described as a poem, a language, song, poetic joust, entertainment, pamaeaybay (preaching) and value laden. Various themes significant to the lives of the Akeanon Bukidnon were identified: arranged marriage, advice, commitment, inheritance, faith, friendship, humility, love, peace and respect. This indigenous culture needs to be ...
the case of the Hanunuo-Mangyan script, the only diacritic marks used are those expressing short vowel “e/i” and “o/u” (Postma, 1974). Buhid e/i o/u be/bi bo/bu ke/ki ko/ku de/di do/du Hanunuo e/i o/u be/bi bo/bu ke/ki ko/ku de/di do/du Figure 1: Samples of the Buhid and Hanunuo Mangyan syllabic scripts with diacritic marks.
Guided by the research of Antoon Postma, a Dutch Anthropologist & expert in Mangyanology, and the advocacy of the Mangyan Heritage Center (MHC), the Hanunuo-Mangyan has consciously preserved Surat-Mangyan from the demise that many Filipino baybayin scripts went through.
Postma defined the AMBAHAN as: 1. a set of poetic expressions. 2. with a measured rhyme of seven-syllable lines. 3. having rhyming end syllables. 4. vocalized as a chant without a determined melody or too much melodic variation. 5. without the accompaniment of musical instruments.
Though modernization has forced the Hanunoos to learn English and Tagalog, they still retain proficiency in their own language and script. The Hanunoos’ writing system, called Surat Mangyan, is descended from the ancient Sanskrit alphabet. Its syllabary is composed of 18 characters; 3 vowels and 15 consonant-vowel combinations.
The Hanuno'o live inland from the southernmost tip of Mindoro. In the 1970s, the Hanuno'o numbered 6,000 out of a total of 20-30,000 Mangyan, already a minority on an island inhabited by 300,000 Tagalog and Visayan settlers. One 2000 estimate numbers the Hanuno'o 13,000. According to the 2000 census, 7,702 identified themselves as Hanuno'o in ...
11 The Hanunoo, together with the neighboring Buhid Mangyans and the Tag-. banwas from Palawan, are the only people in the Philippines who still use an ancient script, an Indic-derived syllabary, which can be traced back to pre-Spanish times. The ambahan of the Hanunoo-Mangyans of Southern Mindoro 361.
