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Encyclopedia > Hanunoo alphabet

One of the indigenous scripts of the Philippines; see Baybayin.


External link

  • Unicode Hanunóo Range 1720-173F (in PDF) (http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1720.pdf)

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About 70% of the Hanunóo are able to read and write their language, and there is at least one person in each family who is literate.
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