Hanunó'o alphabet

The Hanunó'o font, also called Mangyan, is one of the original, introduced not by colonial powers writing systems of the Philippines today and related to the Baybayin. As her mother writing system there This is a so-called Abugidaschrift, a special type of syllabary. But unlike Baybayin Hanunó'o place at least in the life of Hanunó'o people, an indigenous Filipino minority, yet an active role as the primary writing system. This generally written documents are scored in handy bamboo tubes.

Structure and Use

The writing system consists of 3 vowels and 13 basic characters. The latter are each composed of a consonant, which is always followed by a vowel.

A basic character is modified by attaching to a base character an umlaut ( Tagalog Kudlit ), in the form of a bar, either one or the bottom right.

Syllables, which by the standards of the Latin alphabet, a consonant would be at the end, are presented modified. Namely, the last consonant of the syllable is omitted. How to write instead of Maynilad, Manila. The correct reading of Scripture demands accordingly a fairly high level of linguistic skills of the language.

In addition to the characters already shown above for Ra, Re / Ri, Ro / Ru and Where / Wu, there is an alternative spelling for these sounds.

Hanunó'o in Unicode

In Unicode, the character Hanunó'o 1720 occupy the seats U to U 173 F.

• Hanunoo in Unicode (range 1720 - 173F ) (PDF file, 60 KB)