Tagbanwa Alphabet

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Tagbanwa, also known as Apurahuano, is one of the writing systems of the Philippines. The Tagbanwa languages (Aborlan, Calamian and Central), which are Austronesian languages with about 25,000 total speakers[citation needed] in the central and northern regions of Palawan, are dying out as the younger generations of Tagbanwa are learning Cuyonon and Tagalog.

Contents

1 Origin 2 Features

2.1 Vowels 2.2 Consonants

3 Unicode 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

Origin[edit] The Tagbanwa script
Tagbanwa script was used in the Philippines
Philippines until the 17th century. Closely related to Baybayin, it is believed to have come from the Kawi script
Kawi script of Java, Bali
Bali and Sumatra, which in turn, descended from the Pallava
Pallava script, one of the southern Indian scripts derived from Brahmi.[1] Features[edit] Tagbanwa is a syllabic alphabet in which each consonant has an inherent vowel /a/. Other vowels are indicated by a diacritic above (for /i/) or below (for /u/) the consonant.[2] Vowels at the beginning of syllables are represented by their own, independent characters. Syllables ending in a consonant are written without the final consonant.[3] Tagbanwa is traditionally written on bamboo in vertical columns from bottom to top and left to right. Though it is read from left to right in horizontal lines.[1]

Vowels[edit]

Tagbanwa Vowels[3]

Initial Dependent

transcription a i u i u

letter ᝠ ᝡ ᝢ ᝲ ᝳ

Consonants[edit]

Tagbanwa Syllables[3]

transcription k g ng t d n p b m y l w s

consonant + a ᝣ ᝤ ᝥ ᝦ ᝧ ᝨ ᝩ ᝪ ᝫ ᝬ ᝮ ᝯ ᝰ

consonant + i ᝣᝲ ᝤᝲ ᝥᝲ ᝦᝲ ᝧᝲ ᝨᝲ ᝩᝲ ᝪᝲ ᝫᝲ ᝬᝲ ᝮᝲ ᝯᝲ ᝰᝲ

consonant + u ᝣᝳ ᝤᝳ ᝥᝳ ᝦᝳ ᝧᝳ ᝨᝳ ᝩᝳ ᝪᝳ ᝫᝳ ᝬᝳ ᝮᝳ ᝯᝳ ᝰᝳ

Buhid writing makes use of single (᜵) and double (᜶) punctuation marks.[3] Unicode[edit] Main article: Tagbanwa ( Unicode
Unicode block) Tagbanwa script
Tagbanwa script was added to the Unicode
Unicode Standard in March, 2002 with the release of version 3.2. The Unicode
Unicode block for Tagbanwa is U+1760–U+177F:

Tagbanwa[1][2] Official Unicode
Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F

U+176x ᝠ ᝡ ᝢ ᝣ ᝤ ᝥ ᝦ ᝧ ᝨ ᝩ ᝪ ᝫ ᝬ

ᝮ ᝯ

U+177x ᝰ

ᝲ ᝳ

Notes

1.^ As of Unicode
Unicode version 10.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

See also[edit]

Baybayin Buhid script Hanunó'o script Kulitan Kawi script Filipino orthography

References[edit]

^ a b Omniglot: Tagbanwa. Accessed October 13, 2016. ^ Everson, Michael (1998-11-23). "N1933 Revised proposal for encoding the Philippine scripts in the UCS" (PDF). ^ a b c d "Chapter 17: Indonesia and Oceania". The Unicode
Unicode Standard, Version 10.0 (PDF). Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. June 2017. ISBN 978-1-936213-16-0.

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Tagbanwa font

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