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1 day ago · When the Spaniards arrived in the Philippines, the more famous Filipino system of writing, the Baybayin was discarded. However, in Mindoro, the Buhid and Hanunoo Mangyans continued to practice their writing system. The Mangyan script like the Baybayin is based on the syllables of the Philippine phonetics.
3 days ago · Mangyan is the collective name of eight ethnolinguistic groups— Iraya, Alangan, Tadyawan, Tau-Buid, Bangon, Buhid, Hanunoo, and Ratagnon —who inhabit the highland region of Mindoro.Mindoro is the Philippine archipelago’s seventh-largest island, measuring about 10,000 square kilometers.
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3 days ago · The only surviving modern scripts that descended directly from the original baybayin script through natural development are the Tagbanwa script inherited from the Tagbanwa people by the Palawan people and named Ibalnan, the Buhid script and the Hanunóo script in Mindoro.
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22 hours ago · Systems of Writing among the Filipinos - When the Spaniards arrived in the Philippines, the Filipinos were using systems of writing borrowed from Hindu or Javanese sources. This matter is so interesting that one cannot do better than to quote in full Padre Chirino’s account, as he is the first of the Spanish writers to mention it and as his ...
1 day ago · Printer Friendly VersionDownload PDF. Accustomed Othering in Colonial Writing A Review of “Customs of the Tagalogs” (two relations) by Juan de Plasencia From The Philippine Islands 1493-1898. September 2015--There are at least three major discursive issues that can be extracted from the document, Customs of the Tagalogs written by Juan de ...
3 days ago · By Brenda Padilla and Michelle Chaplow. The “Nazarenos” are the members of the “ cofradías ” who participate in the processions. They are also known as the “penitentes” (penitent ones). These are the people you see who are dressed in robes and capes, wearing cone shaped head gear that makes it impossible to know who is behind their disguises.
4 days ago · How Aztec poetry works This article was generously written specially for us by John Bierhorst, editor-translator of Ballads of the Lords of New Spain: The Codex Romances de los Señores de la Nueva España, Cantares Mexicanos: Songs of the Aztecs, History and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex Chimalpopoca, and A Nahuatl-English Dictionary and Concordance to the Cantares Mexicanos.