| Buhid ᝊᝓᝑᝒ | |
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| Script type | |
Period | c. 1300–present |
| Direction | Left-to-right  |
| Languages | Buhid,Tagalog[1] |
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| ISO 15924 | |
| ISO 15924 | Buhd(372), Buhid |
| Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Buhid |
| U+1740–U+175F | |
| Brahmic scripts |
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| TheBrahmi script and its descendants |
Surat Buhid is anabugida used to write theBuhid language. As aBrahmic scriptindigenous to the Philippines, it closely related toBaybayin andHanunó'o. It is still used today by theMangyans, found mainly on island ofMindoro, to write their language,Buhid, together with theFilipino Latin script.
There are efforts to reinvigorate the use of Surat Buhid.[2] Buhid script use varies across Northern (Bansud area) and Southern Buhid (Bongabong) communities.[3]
The Buhid script has 18 independent characters; 15 are consonants and 3 vowels. As an abugida, there are additional diacritic vowels. Consonants have an inherent /a/ vowel. The other two vowels are indicated by a diacritic above (for /i/) or below (for /u/) the consonant. Depending on the consonant, ligatures are formed, changing the shape of the consonant-vowel combination.[4] Vowels at the beginning of syllables are represented by their own, independent characters. Syllables ending in a consonant are written without the final consonant.[5]
| vowels | consonants | |||||||||||||||
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| independent | dependent | |||||||||||||||
ᝀ a | ᝃ ka | ᝄ ga | ᝅ nga | ᝆ ta | ᝇ da | ᝈ na | ᝉ pa | ᝊ ba | ᝋ ma | ᝌ ya | ᝍ ra | ᝎ la | ᝏ wa | ᝐ sa | ᝑ ha | |
ᝁ i | ◌ᝒ i | ᝃ + ◌ᝒ ᝃᝒ ki | ᝄ + ◌ᝒ ᝄᝒ gi | ᝅ + ◌ᝒ ᝅᝒ ngi | ᝆ + ◌ᝒ ᝆᝒ ti | ᝇ + ◌ᝒ ᝇᝒ di | ᝈ + ◌ᝒ ᝈᝒ ni | ᝉ + ◌ᝒ ᝉᝒ pi | ᝊ + ◌ᝒ ᝊᝒ bi | ᝋ + ◌ᝒ ᝋᝒ mi | ᝌ + ◌ᝒ ᝌᝒ yi | ᝍ + ◌ᝒ ᝍᝒ ri | ᝎ + ◌ᝒ ᝎᝒ li | ᝏ + ◌ᝒ ᝏᝒ wi | ᝐ + ◌ᝒ ᝐᝒ si | ᝑ + ◌ᝒ ᝑᝒ hi |
ᝂ u | ◌ᝓ u | ᝃ + ◌ᝓ ᝃᝓ ku | ᝄ + ◌ᝓ ᝄᝓ gu | ᝅ + ◌ᝓ ᝅᝓ ngu | ᝆ + ◌ᝓ ᝆᝓ tu | ᝇ + ◌ᝓ ᝇᝓ du | ᝈ + ◌ᝓ ᝈᝓ nu | ᝉ + ◌ᝓ ᝉᝓ pu | ᝊ + ◌ᝓ ᝊᝓ bu | ᝋ + ◌ᝓ ᝋᝓ mu | ᝌ + ◌ᝓ ᝌᝓ yu | ᝍ + ◌ᝓ ᝍᝓ ru | ᝎ + ◌ᝓ ᝎᝓ lu | ᝏ + ◌ᝓ ᝏᝓ wu | ᝐ + ◌ᝓ ᝐᝓ su | ᝑ + ◌ᝓ ᝑᝓ hu |
The letter order of the Buhid alphabet Buhid, is based onphonetic principles that consider both themanner andplace of articulation of the consonants and vowels they represent.
Buhid writing makes use of single᜵ and double᜶danda punctuation marks.[4]
Buhid script was added to theUnicode Standard in March, 2002 with the release of version 3.2.
The Unicode block for Buhid is U+1740–U+175F:
| Buhid[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+174x | ᝀ | ᝁ | ᝂ | ᝃ | ᝄ | ᝅ | ᝆ | ᝇ | ᝈ | ᝉ | ᝊ | ᝋ | ᝌ | ᝍ | ᝎ | ᝏ |
| U+175x | ᝐ | ᝑ | ᝒ | ᝓ | ||||||||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
