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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 ...
About 70% of the Hanunó'o are able to read and write their language, and there is at least one person in each family who is literate. The script is also known as Mangyan Baybayin or Surat Mangyan. Notable features
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.
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.
Bayabin's modern descendant scripts surviving modern script are the Tagbanwa script, also known as known as ibalnan by the Palawan people, who have adopted it, the Buhid script and the Hanunóo script of Mindoro.
Nov 4, 2023 · Both writing systems, called “Surat Hanunuo Mangyan” and “Surat Buhid Mangyan” respectively are thought to be of Indic origin, and perhaps introduced into Mangyan culture from what is now Indonesia around the 12th or 13th centuries. The Hanunuo Mangyan and Southern Buhid have similar syllabic scripts due to their geographical proximity.
