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| Basahan Guhit, Súrat Bikolnon | |
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| Languages | Bicol |
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Sister systems | In the Philippines:
Buhid Balinese Batak Javanese Lontara Sundanese Rencong Rejang |
Basahan script, also known as Guhit, is the native name used by Bicolanos to refer to Baybayin.
The word basahan was already recorded in a book entitled Vocabulario de la Lengua Bicol by Marcos de Lisboa in 1628, which states it has three vowels and fifteen consonants.[1]
- ^ Lisboa, Maŕcos de (1865). "basahan". Vocabulario de la Lengua Bicol (in Spanish and Bikol). p. 60. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
BASAHAN. pc. El a, b, c, de ellos por donde aprenden á leer que tiene quince letras consonantes, y tres vocales, a, e, o.