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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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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.” The word “maya” could also be read as “mayad” (Mangyan word for good) instead of “Mangyan”. If this is written ...
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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.
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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The Hanuno'o live inland from the southernmost tip of Mindoro. In the 1970s, the Hanuno'o numbered 6,000 out of a total of 20-30,000 Mangyan, already a minority on an island inhabited by 300,000 Tagalog and Visayan settlers. One 2000 estimate numbers the Hanuno'o 13,000. According to the 2000 census, 7,702 identified themselves as Hanuno'o in ...
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.
