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Basahan script, also known as Guhit, is the native name used by
Basahan has three stand-alone vowels (a, e/i, o/u) and fifteen consonants (ba, ka, da, ga, ha, la, ma, na, nga, pa, ra, sa, ta, wa, ya). This script can be called an
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Basahan script, also known as Guhit, is the native name used by Bicolanos
The Bicolano people or the Bikolanos ( Bikol: ''Mga Bikolnon'') are the fourth-largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group. Males are usually referred to as ''Bicolano'', and ''Bicolana'' is used for females. Their native region is commonly referred ...
to refer to Baybayin
(, ''pre-kudlít'': , ''virama-krus-kudlít'': , ''virama-pamudpod'': ; also formerly commonly incorrectly known as alibata) is a Philippine script. The script is an abugida belonging to the family of the Brahmic scripts. Geographically, it ...
.
The word Basahan is already recorded in a book entitled Vocabulario de la Lengua Bicol
The ''Vocabulario de la lengua bicol'' (Spanish for ''Vocabulary of the Bicol language'') is a list of vocabulary of the Bicol language, collected by Marcos de Lisboa when he was assigned to Bicol Region, Philippines.
Lisboa, a Franciscan friar ...
by Marcos de Lisboa
:''Marcos da Silva leads here. For other people named Marcos da Silva, see Marcos da Silva (disambiguation)''
Mark of Lisbon (died 1622), properly Marcos da Silva, was a Portuguese Franciscan, historian, and the Bishop of Porto.
While visiting the ...
in 1628 which states that it has three vowels and fifteen consonants.
Alphabet
Basahan has three stand-alone vowels (a, e/i, o/u) and fifteen consonants (ba, ka, da, ga, ha, la, ma, na, nga, pa, ra, sa, ta, wa, ya). This script can be called an abugida
An abugida (, from Ge'ez language, Ge'ez: ), sometimes known as alphasyllabary, neosyllabary or pseudo-alphabet, is a segmental Writing systems#Segmental writing system, writing system in which consonant-vowel sequences are written as units; ...
because signs represent syllables, that is a consonant with a vowel.
Way of writing
According to Scott, when e.g. the sign for ba has to be read as be / bi it has a kaldit (a small "v" shaped diacritic sign) on the left (or above), if it has to be read as bu / bo the kaldit is on the right (resp. below). The of the older bikolanos has an own sign for /r/ while the ''basahans'' of Tagalog (Baybayin) and Ilokano (Kurdita) have not. In his time the kaldit was called or according toMarcos de Lisboa
:''Marcos da Silva leads here. For other people named Marcos da Silva, see Marcos da Silva (disambiguation)''
Mark of Lisbon (died 1622), properly Marcos da Silva, was a Portuguese Franciscan, historian, and the Bishop of Porto.
While visiting the ...
, author of the earliest dictionary of Bikol.
Reference
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sample of Basahan script font
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