Type Abugida Time period c. 1300–present | Languages Buhid Direction Left-to-right | |
Parent systems Proto-Sinaitic alphabet
Phoenician alphabet
Aramaic alphabet
Brāhmī
Pallava
Old Kawi
Buhid Sister systems Balinese
Batak
Baybayin
Kulitan
Hanunó'o
Javanese
Lontara
Old Sundanese
Rencong
Rejang
Tagbanwa | ||
Buhid is a Brahmic script of the Philippines, closely related to Baybayin and Hanunó'o, and is used today by the Mangyans to write their language, Buhid.
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Structure
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. Vowels at the beginning of syllables are represented by their own, independent characters. Syllables ending in a consonant are written without the final consonant.
Note: With the proper rendering support, the Buhid syllable ki above (ᝃᝒ) should resemble a plus sign (+).
Buhid writing makes use of single (᜵) and double (᜶) punctuation marks.
Unicode
Buhid script was added to the Unicode Standard in March, 2002 with the release of version 3.2.
The Unicode block for Buhid is U+1740–U+175F: