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Learning the script. Young Hanunó'o men and women (called layqaw) [8] learn the script primarily in order to memorize love songs. The goal is to learn as many songs as possible, and using the script to write the songs facilitates this process. The script is also used to write letters, notifications, and other documents.
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.
Contents 1Structure 2Direction of writing 3Learning the script 4Examples 5Unicode 6See also 7References 8External links Hanunó'o (Mangyan Baybayin/Surat Mangyan)ᜱᜨᜳᜨᜳᜢScript type Abugida Time periodc. 1300–presentDirectionLeft-to-right, bottom-to-top LanguagesHanunó'o, TagalogRe...
Hanun ó o. 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.
Aug 15, 2023 · Writing direction: The Hanunó'o script is traditionally written in vertical columns from bottom to top, with each line read from left to right. However, horizontal writing has become more common in modern times. Creator and invention time: The exact origins and creator of the Hanunó'o script are shrouded in mystery.
Hanunó’o is one of the indigenous scripts of the Philippines and is used by the Mangyan peoples of southern Mindoro to write the Hanunó'o language. [1] It is an abugida descended from the Brahmic scripts, closely related to Baybayin, and is famous for being written vertical but written upward, rather than downward as nearly all other scripts (however, it's read horizontally left to right).
In the traditional way of writing - without using a pamudpod, the word “baha” (flood) in Mangyan script could be read as “bahag” (loincloth) or “bahay” (house). In the figure below, the word “Mangyan,” in the traditional open-syllable way of writing consists of two characters, “ma” and “ya.”
