Buhid language

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The Buhid language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Buhid Mangyan people of Mindoro in the Philippines, known for its indigenous Buhid script.

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Label Occurrences
Buhid language canonical 3

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Malayo-Polynesian language
Philippine language
country Philippines
ethnicGroup Buhid people
hasAlternativeName Batangan language
Buid language
Mangyan peoples
surface form: Mangyan Buhid
hasBasicWordOrder verb–initial
hasCulturalSignificanceFor Mangyan peoples
surface form: Buhid Mangyan people
hasDomain home and community use
storytelling
traditional songs and chants
hasGlottocode buhi1242
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasNativeName Batangan
Buid
hasPhonologicalFeature simple consonant inventory typical of Philippine languages
vowel system with five vowels
hasScriptUnicodeBlock Buhid (U+1740–U+175F)
hasStatus recognized indigenous language of the Philippines
hasWritingSystem Buhid script
isEndangered true
isMinorityLanguageIn Philippines
ISO639-3Code bku
isPartOf Mangyan languages
isTaughtIn some local community schools
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Philippine languages
preservationEfforts community-based literacy programs
documentation by linguists
region Mimaropa
scriptDirection left-to-right
scriptUnicodeStandardized true
scriptUsedHistoricallyFor inscriptions on bamboo
sharesFeaturesWith Tagalog
other Central Philippine languages
other Mangyan languages
spokenBy Mangyan peoples
surface form: Buhid Mangyan people

Mangyan peoples
spokenIn Mindoro
Philippines
usedFor everyday communication among Buhid people
oral tradition
ritual practices
writingSystemType Brahmic abugida

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Buhid usedFor Buhid language