Buhid, is an indigenous Brahmic script

Writing system

A writing system is a symbolic system used to represent elements or statements expressible in language.-General properties:Writing systems are distinguished from other possible symbolic communication systems in that the reader must usually understand something of the associated spoken language to...

 of the Philippines

Philippines

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, closely related to Baybayin

Baybayin

Baybayin , is a pre-Spanish Philippine writing system. It is a member of the Brahmic family and is recorded as being in use in the 16th century...

, and is used today by the Mangyan

Mangyan

Mangyan is the generic name for the eight indigenous groups found in the Philippine island of Mindoro, each with its own tribal name, language, and customs...

s to write their language, Buhid

Buhid language

The Buhid language is a language spoken by Mangyans in the province of Mindoro in the Philippines. It is divided into eastern and western dialects.It uses the Buhid script, which is encoded in the Unicode-Block Buhid .- External links :...

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Unicode

Buhid script was added to the Unicode

Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...

 Standard in March, 2002 with the release of version 3.2.

The Unicode block for Buhid is U+1740 ... U+175F. Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points.

See also

• Baybayin
  Baybayin
  Baybayin , is a pre-Spanish Philippine writing system. It is a member of the Brahmic family and is recorded as being in use in the 16th century...
  
  
• Hanunó'o script
  Hanunó'o script
  Hanunó’o is one of the indigenous scripts of the Philippines and is used by the Mangyan people of southern Mindoro to write the Hanunó’o language. It is an abugida descended from the Indic scripts, closely related to Baybayin, and is famous for being written vertical but written upward, rather than...
  
  
• Kawi script
• Tagbanwa
  Tagbanwa
  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...
  
  
• Filipino orthography

External links

• About Buhid in omniglot.com
• quivira font render Buhid script