Hanunoo script

Hanunó'o
(Mangyan Baybayin/Surat Mangyan)
ᜱᜨᜳᜨᜳᜢ
Script type
Time period
c. 1300–present
DirectionLeft-to-right, bottom-to-top Edit this on Wikidata
LanguagesHanunó'o, Tagalog
Related scripts
Parent systems
Sister systems
In the Philippines:

Buhid (Mangyan Baybayin, Surat Mangyan)
Kulitan (Súlat Kapampángan)
Tagbanwa script
Ibalnan script
In the Indonesian Archipelago:
Balinese
Batak
Javanese
Lontara
Sundanese
Rencong

Rejang
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Hano (371), ​Hanunoo (Hanunóo)
Unicode
Unicode alias
Hanunoo
U+1720–U+173F

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Brahmic scripts
The Brahmi script and its descendants
Northern Brahmic
Southern Brahmic

Hanunoo (IPA: [hanunuʔɔ]), 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.[1][2]

It is an abugida descended from the Brahmic scripts, closely related to Sulat Tagalog, and is famous for being written vertical but written upward, rather than downward as nearly all other scripts (however, it is read horizontally left to right). It is usually written on bamboo by incising characters with a knife.[3][4] Most known Hanunó'o inscriptions are relatively recent because of the perishable nature of bamboo. It is therefore difficult to trace the history of the script.[2]

  1. ^ "Protect all PH writing systems, heritage advocates urge Congress". April 27, 2018.
  2. ^ a b Postma, Antoon (July 1971). "Contemporary Mangyan Scripts". Philippine Journal of Linguistics. 2 (1): 1–12.
  3. ^ Rubino, Carl. "The Hanunoo Script". Ancient Scripts of the Philippines. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Conklin was invoked but never defined (see the help page).