Hanunoo

E174383

Hanunoo is an indigenous Philippine script traditionally used by the Hanunó'o Mangyan people of Mindoro to write their Austronesian language.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Hanunoo canonical 5
Hanunóo 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Brahmic script
abugida
indigenous Philippine script
addedToUnicodeVersion Unicode 3.2
alternateName Hanunóo script
surface form: Hanunó'o script

Hanunóo script
surface form: Hanunóo Mangyan script
consonantNotation independent consonant characters
country Philippines
culturalRole marker of Mangyan cultural identity
culturalUse love poems (ambahan)
personal communication
directionOfWriting bottom-to-top
left-to-right (when rotated for reading)
governmentRecognition recognized as part of Philippine cultural heritage
hasCharacterType consonant-vowel syllables
hasDiacritics vowel marks placed above, below, or beside consonants
hasEncodingStandard included in Unicode Standard
hasIndependentVowelSigns yes
hasInherentVowel a
hasNumberOfBasicConsonants 15–18 (depending on analysis)
hasPunctuation limited punctuation marks
hasUnicodeBlock Hanunóo script
surface form: Hanunoo (U+1720–U+173F)
hasVowelKiller virama-like diacritic to cancel inherent vowel
historicalContinuity still used in traditional contexts
languageFamily Austronesian languages
preservationEfforts documented by linguists and anthropologists
region Mindoro
relatedScript Baybayin
Buhid
Tagbanwa
scriptCodeISO15924 Hano
scriptFamily Brahmic scripts
scriptScope used primarily for the Hanunó'o language
scriptStatus minority script
timeOfUnicodeInclusion 2002
traditionalMedium bamboo
wood
traditionalTool knife
stylus
usedBy Mangyan peoples
surface form: Hanunó'o Mangyan people
usedForLanguage Hanunoo language
surface form: Hanunó'o language
vowelNotation diacritics modifying consonants
writingSurfaceOrientation bamboo tubes rotated while reading
writingSystemScope primarily used in a specific ethnolinguistic community
writingSystemType alphasyllabary
writingTechnique incising on bamboo or wood

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tglg relatedScript Hanunoo
Hanunoo language hasAlternativeName Hanunoo
this entity surface form: Hanunóo
Tagbanwa relatedTo Hanunoo
Unicode 3.0 addsBlocks Hanunoo
Hanunóo script UnicodeBlock Hanunoo