Surat Buhid is 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; ...
used to write the
Buhid language. As a
Brahmic script
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indigenous to the Philippines, it closely related to
Baybayin and
Hanunó'o. It is still used today by the
Mangyan
Mangyan is the generic name for the eight indigenous groups found on the island of Mindoro, southwest of the island of Luzon, the Philippines, each with its own tribal name, language, and customs. The total population may be around 280,001, ...
s, found mainly on island of
Mindoro
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, to write their language,
Buhid, together with the
Filipino latin script.
There are efforts to reinvigorate the use of Surat Buhid. Buhid script use varies across Northern (Bansud area) and Southern Buhid (Bongabong) communities.
Structure
The Buhid script has 18 independent characters, 15 are consonants and 3 vowels. As an Abugida, there is an additional diacritic vowels. Consonants have an inherent /a/ vowel. The other two vowels are indicated by a diacritic above (for /i/) or below (for /u/) the consonant. Depending on the consonant, ligatures are formed, changing the shape of the consonant-vowel combination.
Vowels at the beginning of syllables are represented by their own, independent characters. Syllables ending in a consonant are written without the final consonant.
Letters
The
letter order of Buhid, recorded in
Unicode
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, is based on
phonetic
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principles that consider both the
manner and
place of articulation
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of the consonants and vowels they represent.
Vowels
Consonants
Note: With the proper
rendering support, the Buhid syllable ki above (
ᝃᝒ) should resemble a plus sign (''+'').
Buhid writing makes use of single (
᜵) and double (
᜶) punctuation marks.
Unicode
Buhid script was added to the
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology Technical standard, standard for the consistent character encoding, encoding, representation, and handling of Character (computing), text expre ...
Standard in March, 2002 with the release of version 3.2.
The Unicode block for Buhid is U+1740–U+175F:
See also
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Kulitan
Kulitan (Spanish: ''cúlitan''), also known as súlat Kapampángan and pamagkulit, is one of the various indigenous suyat writing systems in the Philippines. It was used for writing Kapampangan, a language mainly spoken in Central Luzon, until it ...
*
Kawi script
The Kawi or or Old Javanese script is a Brahmic script found primarily in Java and used across much of Maritime Southeast Asia between the 8th century and the 16th century.Aditya Bayu Perdana and Ilham Nurwansah 2020Proposal to encode Kawi/ ...
*
Tagbanwa alphabet
Tagbanwa is one of the scripts indigenous to the Philippines, used by the Tagbanwa and the Palawan people as their ethnic writing system.
The Tagbanwa languages (Aborlan, Calamian and Central), which are Austronesian languages with about 25,000 ...
*
Filipino orthography
Filipino orthography ( fil, Ortograpiyang Filipino) specifies the correct use of the writing system of the Filipino language, the national and co-official language of the Philippines.
In 2013, the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino released the ''Ortog ...
References
External links
About Buhidin omniglot.com
Philippine scripts
Brahmic scripts
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