Tagbanwa script
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| Tagbanwa | |
| Type | Abugida |
|---|---|
| Spoken languages | Languages of Palawan |
| Time period | c. 1300–present |
| Parent systems | |
| Sister systems | Balinese Batak Baybayin Buhid Hanunó'o Javanese Lontara Old Sundanese Rejang |
| Unicode range | U+1760–U+177F |
| ISO 15924 | Tagb |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | |
Tagbanwa, also known as Apurahuano, is one of the indigenous writing systems of the Philippines. The Tagbanwa language, an Austronesian language, with about 8, 000 speakers in the central and northern regions of Palawan, is dying out as the younger generations of Tagbanua are learning Cuyonon and Tagalog.
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[edit] Origin
The Tagbanwa script had been used in the Philippines until the 17th century. It is believed to have come from the Kawi script of Java, Bali and Sumatra, which in turn, descended from the Pallava script, one of the southern Indian scripts derived from Brahmi.[1]
[edit] Features
Tagbanwa is a syllabic alphabet in which each consonant has an inherent vowel /a/. Other vowels are indicated either by separate letters, or by diacritics. When vowels appear at the beginning of words or one they own, they are represented by separate letters.
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]
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[edit] Unicode
The Unicode range for Tagbanwa is U+1760–U+177F. Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points.
| Tagbanwa Unicode.org chart (PDF) |
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| 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 | ᝲ | ᝳ | |||||||||||||
[edit] References
- ^ a b Omniglot: Tagbanwa. Accessed August 28, 2008.
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