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Script
Hanunoo is one of the four indigenous philippine scripts that are encoced consecutively in the Unicode: Tagalog, Hanunoo, Buhid and Tagbanwa. These scripts are the remaining ones of a total number of seventeen scripts that used to exist in the area. The names of the scripts are the names of the tribes that speak them. Hanunoo is spoken today by about 10,000 people. |
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Writing
Hanunoo is written in columns from bottom to top, going from left to right. Traditionally, it is written on bamboo. Hanunoo is a syllabic script, which means that a character is not just indicating a vowel but a whole syllable. A character by itself is a vowel made up by a consonant spoken with an "a". The characters U+1732 (Hanunoo vowel sign I) and U+1733 (Hanunoo vowel sign U) are diacritics that indicate when the consonant is instead spoken with either an "e/i"-sound or a "o/u"-sound. |
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