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Surat Buhid is an abugida used to write the Buhid language. As a Brahmic script indigenous to the Philippines, it closely related to Baybayin and Hanunó'o. It is still used today by the Mangyans, found mainly on island of Mindoro, to write their language, Buhid, together with the Filipino latin script.
Buhid is a Philippine language spoken by the Mangyan people on the island of Mindoro in the Philippines, mainly in Mindoro Occidental and Mindoro Oriental provinces. In 2009 there were about 9,300 Buhid speakers. Buhid is also known as Mangyan, Bangon, Batangan or Bukil.
This page brings together basic information about the Buhid script and its use for the Buhid language. It aims to provide a brief, descriptive summary of the modern, printed orthography and typographic features, and to advise how to write Buhid using Unicode.
Buhid script. Surat Buhid is an Abugida used to write the Buhid language. As a Brahmic script indigenous to the Philippines, it closely related to Baybayin and Hanunó'o. It is still used today by the Mangyans, found mainly on island of Mindoro, to write their language, Buhid, together with the Filipino latin script.
Brahmic scripts descended from the Brahmi script. Brahmi is clearly attested from the 7th century BCE from the potsherds found all over Tamizhagam ( Tamil Nadu) . Northern Brahmi gave rise to the Gupta script during the Gupta period, which in turn diversified into a number of cursives during the medieval period.
Surat Buhid is an abugida used to write the Buhid language. As a Brahmic script indigenous to the Philippines, it closely related to Baybayin and Hanunó'o. It is still used today by the Mangyans, found mainly on island of Mindoro, to write their language, Buhid, together with the Filipino latin script.
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Buhid is a language spoken by one of the eight indigenous groups, collectively known as Mangyan, in Mindoro. Like many other languages spoken by minority groups in the Philippines, it faces great competition from more dominant languages spoken in the area like Tagalog or Filipino and Bisaya.
