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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.
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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Nov 28, 2018 · Historically, young Hanunuo men and women learned the Hanunuo script in order to write each other love poems. The goal was to learn as many songs as possible, and using the script to write the songs facilitated this process. Nowadays they are more likely to use digital devices, which are unlikely to support the Hanunuo script.
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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Though modernization has forced the Hanunoos to learn English and Tagalog, they still retain proficiency in their own language and script. The Hanunoos’ writing system, called Surat Mangyan, is descended from the ancient Sanskrit alphabet. Its syllabary is composed of 18 characters; 3 vowels and 15 consonant-vowel combinations.
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.
Treating the Surat-Mangyan The Hanunuo-Mangyans have consciously preserved the Surat-Mangyan, their indigenous system of writing, from the extinction that many Philippine scripts went through. Their society persisted in using this script, hand in hand with their chanted poetry, the ambahan.
