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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
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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.
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Nov 4, 2020 · Together with their northern neighbor the Buhids, the Hanunuo possess a pre-Spanish writing system, considered to be of Indic origin, with characters expressing the open syllables of the language [Postma, 1981].
Nov 4, 2023 · Hanunuo Mangyans tend to drop the descriptor “hanunuo” within their communities, and refer to themselves and their language as “Mangyan.” Of the eight groups of Mangyan listed above, only the Hanunuo and the Buhid from the southern part of Mindoro Island have attested writing systems.
Apr 5, 2024 · We do know Ildefonso Maliwanag made transliterations of the bamboo scripts in Set 2 from Gardner’s description of his method of study: “The transcription so obtained is compared with the transliteration made by Maliwanag at the time and place of the original writing,” p. 25. Maliwanag also provided Gardner with translations.
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).
