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Most Southeast Asian scripts including the Mangyan scripts originated from the Brahmi script of India. Brahmi script types emerged due to the rise of Buddhism and its expansion to neighboring countries in Asia (Postma, 1974) before the age of discovery and colonization.
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Hanunuo-Mangyan people (Postma 1977:46). Specifically, this thesis analyzes the boundary and internal unity markers, surface and notional structure, etic salience scheme, and macrostructure of the suyots.
Hanunoo (IPA:), 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.
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.
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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 Hanunó'o script is used to write love songs or ʼambāhan, and also for correspondence. 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.
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These three syllabic scripts have been National Cultural Treasures since 1997 and have been inscribed in the Memory of the World Registers of UNESCO since 1998. The Buhid and Hanunuo Mangyans have kept alive their indigenous way of writing due to their relative mountain isolation.
