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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 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.
When a culture is forced to abandon its traditional script, everything it has written for hundreds of years — sacred texts, poems, personal correspondence, legal documents, the collective experience, wisdom and identity of a people — is lost. This Atlas is about those writing systems, and the people who are trying to save them.
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.
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.
Mar 13, 2022 · The group recommended that the script be used in documenting gatherings, rituals and other activities among the eight tribes that make up the Mangyan population — the Alangan, Bangon, Buhid ...
Oct 5, 2020 · She tried to enlighten us and initiated telling stories of their writing system. It is often forgotten that the term ‘ ‘Mangyan’’ is a collective term for the eight indigenous groups in Mindoro, including Iraya, Alangan, Tadyawan, Tau-buid, Bangon, Buhid, Ratagnon, and Hanunuo. Three of these groups, including the Hanunuo has their own ...
