Tagbanwa

E181002

Tagbanwa is an indigenous Philippine script historically used by the Tagbanwa people of Palawan for writing their Austronesian language.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Tagbanwa canonical 6

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf abugida
indigenous Philippine script
writing system
countryOfOrigin Philippines
culturalAssociation Tagbanwa cultural identity
currentStatus limited contemporary use
derivedFrom Kawi script
geographicDistribution central Palawan
northern Palawan
graphemeType syllabic characters
hasCharacterCategory consonant letters
punctuation marks
vowel signs
hasCombiningMarks vowel diacritics
hasConsonantInventory basic set of CV syllabic characters
hasDigitalEncoding Unicode
hasDirectionalityProperty strong left-to-right
hasInherentVowel a
hasScriptCodeISO15924 Tagb
hasTypicalInscriptionMethod incising or carving
hasTypicalMedium bamboo
leaves
hasVowelSign Tagbanwa script
surface form: Tagbanwa vowel sign I

Tagbanwa vowel sign U
Tagbanwa vowel sign Uu
historicalUse personal communication
ritual texts
languageFamilyWritten Austronesian languages
primaryLanguageWritten Tagbanwa languages
surface form: Tagbanwa language
regionOfOrigin Palawan
surface form: Palawan Island
relatedTo Baybayin
Buhid
Hanunoo
scriptFamily Brahmic scripts
Philippine scripts
scriptUsageContext inscriptions
manuscripts
sharesFeaturesWith other Brahmic-derived Southeast Asian scripts
timePeriodOfWidespreadUse precolonial Philippines
unicodeBlockName Tagbanwa
unicodeRange U+1760–U+177F
unicodeStandardVersionIntroduced Unicode 3.2
usedBy Tagbanwa people
usedIn Palawan
Philippines
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystemScope historical
writingSystemType alphasyllabary

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Referenced by (6)

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

Tglg relatedScript Tagbanwa
Hanunoo relatedScript Tagbanwa
Unicode 3.0 addsBlocks Tagbanwa
Tagbanwa script ethnicGroup Tagbanwa