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      • They speak an Austronesian language, and most are literate, using an Indic-derived script that they write on bamboo.
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  2. 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, Waigan, Wawan and Bulalakawnon.

  3. They speak an Austronesian language, and most are literate, using an Indic-derived script that they write on bamboo. The Hanun ó o were largely out of contact with schools and missions at least as late as the early 1950s.

  4. Mar 16, 2011 · Hanunoo Color Categories. In an important paper published in Southwestern Journal of Anthropology in 1955, Harold Conklin presented a description of the color categorization system of Hanunoo, a Philippine language spoken in the southern part of the Mindoro island (see map below).

  5. ISO 639-3. hnn. Glottolog. hanu1241. This article contains Hanunoo text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hanunoo script. Hanunoo, or Hanunó'o ( IPA: [hanunuʔɔ] ), is a language spoken by Mangyans in the island of Mindoro, Philippines . It is written in the Hanunoo script .

  6. Apr 18, 2019 · Guaraní. An anomaly on the list, Guaraní is the only indigenous language in South America that is spoken by non-indigenous people as a native language. Its predominance in Paraguay is related to the death of 70% of the male population in the 1870 Paraguayan war, and President Carlos Antonio Lopez realized he had to bridge the divide between ...

  7. Hanunóo. The 7,000 Hanunóo (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.

  8. LANGUAGE. The Mangyan groups speak mutually unintelligible languages. The Hanuno'o language is similar to the Visayan tongues of the central Philippines.

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