Hanunó'o script

Infobox Writing system
name=Hanunó'o
type=Abugida
languages=Hanunó'o
fam1=Proto-Canaanite alphabet
fam2=Phoenician alphabet
fam3=Aramaic alphabet
fam4=Brāhmī
fam5=Pallava
fam6=Old Kawi
sisters=Balinese
Batak
Baybayin
Buhid
Javanese
Lontara
Old Sundanese
Rejang
Tagbanwa

time=c. 1300–present
unicode= [http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1720.pdf U+1720–U+173F]
iso15924=Hano
sample=
image_size=150px

Hanunó'o is one of the indigenous scripts of the Philippines; see Baybayin. It is used to write in the Hanunó'o language. It is a pre-Islamic, Indic-derived syllabary which is written by incising characters on bamboo. The syllabary contains only 48 characters, three of which are vowels. Consonantal codas (final consonants of syllables) and glottal stops are not indicated in the script, so some reading is context dependent requiring a certain linguistic aptitude. [ [http://iloko.tripod.com/Hanunoo.html Iloko tripod: Hanunoo] . Accessed September 02, 2008.]

Consonants in the Hanunoo script include: b d g h k l m n ng p r s t w yVowels are a e/i o/u

The characters lala' [l] and rara' [r] differ only when written with "i" or "u" vowel marks. The Hanunoo script is generally written from bottom to top in columns which proceed from the left.

Hanunó'o in Unicode

The Unicode range for Hanunó'o is U+1720 ... U+173F. Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points.

ee also

*Baybayin
*Buhid script
*Tagalog alphabet
*Tagbanwa

External links

* [http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1720.pdf Unicode Hanunóo Range 1720-173F (in PDF)]
* [http://iloko.tripod.com/hanuscript.gifThe Entire Hanunóo script]