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my tribe – the Hanunuo Mangyans of Mindoro. I only hope I can do justice to my father’s passion as I present to you the literary treasures of my people, the Hanunuo Mangyan, as well as the Buhid Mangyan. The Buhid and Hanunuo Mangyan syllabic scripts are two variations of a script called Surat Mangyan.
Postma defined the AMBAHAN as: 1. a set of poetic expressions. 2. with a measured rhyme of seven-syllable lines. 3. having rhyming end syllables. 4. vocalized as a chant without a determined melody or too much melodic variation. 5. without the accompaniment of musical instruments.
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.
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.
This old, pre-Spanish writing system, tracing its origins to India some 2500 years ago, has greatly helped the Ambahan poem to stay alive. Con? versely, the existence of this wonderful and practical poetry provided the script with sufficient reason (and material) to be used over and over again.
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]. This syllabic writing system, called Surat Mangyan, is being taught in several Mangyan schools in Mansalay and Bulalacao.
Aug 29, 2018 · Ambahan is an indigenous poetry of the Hanunoo Mangyan of the province of Mindoro. It is inscribed using an ancient syllabic script derived from India. It is now listed in the UNESCO Memory of the World Registry. The Ambahan has seven syllables and is inscribed onto bamboo segments, nodes, musical instruments, or other materials using the tip ...
