Antoon Postma ( Hanunó'o: Buhid: ᝀᝈ᜔ᝆᝓᝈ᜔ ᝉᝓᝐ᜔ᝆ᜔ᝋ) (28 March 1929 – 22 October 2016) was a Dutch

anthropologist An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms and ...

who married into and lived among the Hanunuo, a Mangyan sub-tribe in southeastern Mindoro, Philippines.Tribute to Antoon Postma
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/ref> He is best known for being the first to decipher the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, and for documenting the

Hanunó'o script Hanunoo (), also rendered Hanunó'o, is one of the scripts Suyat, indigenous to the Philippines and is used by the Mangyan peoples of southern Mindoro to write the Hanunó'o language. It is an abugida descended from the Brahmic scripts, clo ...

, paving the way for its preservation and understanding.

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