Buhid

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DISCLAIMER: This script is still being researched

Data

Alternate Names Mangyan Babayin, Surat Mangyan, Bangon
ISO 15924 Bhd 372
Type Abugida
Family Insular Southeast Asian
Direction LtR
Diacritics Yes
Contextual Forms No
Capitals Used No
Glyphs 18
Inventor Unknown
Earliest Location Sumagui, Phillipines (also Manihala, Tangon, and nearby streams northwest of Bongabon city)
Earliest Date 1604 CE
Latest Date Present
Ancestry
    • Buhid

Overview

There is not a lot of research regarding Buhid people or their script. This researcher was unable to find sources dictating the origin of the the script and has listed the location of Buhid communities from Colin E. Tweddell's anthropological survey in 1970 for the earliest attested location.

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Calapang, Emereciana Lorenzo 2014 Reviving the Hanunuo and Buhid Mangyan Syllabic Scripts of the Philippines Mangyan Heritage CEnter, Inc.
Changizi, Mark A and Shinsuke Shimojo 2005 Character Complexity and Redundancy in Writing Systems over Human History, Vol. 272, No. 1560 (Feb 7, 2005), p. 267-275 Proceedings: Biological Sciences
Coulmas, Florian 1999 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 313-349 Blackwell Publishing
ISO/IEC 2020 The Unicode Standard, Version 13.0, p. 686-688 Unicode, Inc.
Tweddell, Colin E. 1970 The Identity and Distribution of the Mangyan Tribes of Mindoro, Philippines; Vol. 12, No. 6 (Jun., 1970), pp. 189-207 Anthropological Linguistics