Buhid script

Surat Buhid is an abugida used to write the Buhid language. As a Brahmic script indigenous to the Philippines, it closely related to Baybayin and Hanunó'o. It is still used today by the Mangyans, found mainly on island of Mindoro, to write their language, Buhid, together with the Filipino Latin script.

Buhid ᝊᝓᝑᝒ
Script type	Abugida
Period	c. 1300–present
Direction	Left-to-right
Languages	Buhid, Tagalog
Related scripts
Parent systems	Proto-Sinaitic alphabet Phoenician alphabet Aramaic alphabet Brāhmī Pallava Old Kawi Baybayin Buhid
Sister systems	Philippines Hanunó'o script Kulitan script Baybayin Tagbanwa script Indonesian Archipelago Balinese script Batak script Javanese script Lontara script Sundanese script Rencong script Rejang script
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Buhd (372), ​Buhid
Unicode
Unicode alias	Buhid
Unicode range	U+1740–U+175F

There are efforts to reinvigorate the use of Surat Buhid. Buhid script use varies across Northern (Bansud area) and Southern Buhid (Bongabong) communities.

Structure

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. Vowels at the beginning of syllables are represented by their own, independent characters. Syllables ending in a consonant are written without the final consonant.

Buhid syllables

vowels		consonants
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 on phonetic principles that consider both the manner and place of articulation of the consonants and vowels they represent.

Buhid writing makes use of single ᜵ and double ᜶ danda 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:

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 1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

See also

• Kulitan
• Kawi script
• Tagbanwa alphabet
• Filipino orthography