New Mangyan Font:
Download this new font set from: http://nordenx.deviantart.com/art/Mangyan-Hanunoo-Brush-Font-169880405
Updated Mangyan Font:
Download the updated file from: http://nordenx.deviantart.com/art/Mangyan-Hanunoo-Font-149145096
Font updated to v.1.50
- Unicode ranges transferred from Tagalog to Hanunóo
- Finished welding and verifying all glyphs
- Various cleanup and re-alignments
A Brush with Fate (Baybayin Sighting)
I don't know who the artist/writer was but I am quite intrigued with his/her use of Hanunoo script. I am not sure if this poster actually is written in the Mangyan language; I can read the script alright, but it only seem like gibberish to me. It does not seem to be written in Tagalog and I don't fully understand Mangyan so I can't truly be sure what it says.
Anyway, it's been a year since and I am going back to the Philippines this July 9, 2010 and will be staying until Aug. 28, 2010. I plan to visit the Mangyan Heritage Center in Calapan City sometime during my stay there. Maybe I can ask someone over there to translate this poster to me.
Anyway, this poster is one of the inspirations for the new brush-style font. I was also looking at other examples of Hanunóo handwriting (not carving).
What's new?
Like the previous Hanunóo font, I included the pamudpod as well as the cross kudlit or virama. To access the pamudpod use the equal key ( = ) and to access the virama use the plus key ( + ).
There is a new kudlit system?
The Nordenx fonts are created so that a standard western keyboard can easily access the baybayin characters. However, please note that the Mangyan script have different kudlit positions depending on what character is used. These different kudlit positions can be accessed by typing the keys for e, i, o, u, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 (see sample image in the download page). Using these keys, you can easily and accurately position your kudlits to write the proper Mangyan syllables. To render kudlit in the classical baybayin i/e & o/u locations, just use the i an o keys respectively.
Hanunóo script is used in writing ambāhan - I think it's time to learn how to write these epic poems.
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3 comments:
This reminds me of the anti-mining protest in Mindoro last year, when a Mangyan Alyansa Tigil Mina protestor named Kadlos wrote an open letter to Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in magic marker on a large yellow sheet of construction paper. You see the same effects of writing on paper there.
Yeah, this:
http://sablayankongmahal.blogspot.com/2009/11/open-letter-of-tribal-leader-on-hunger.html
:)
Yes, indeed!
I actually used two other pictures in my slide presentation on the historical relationships of the Philippine-Sulawesi-Sumatran scripts. I was sent three high def photos by the photographer. I used two (with permission) that showed him writing the letter with magic markers and holding the sign up to be read. I didn't used the third one, which is a nice high definition face-on of the letter itself.
Did I ever send you my slide presentation or my paper for the Berkeley Linguistics Society? If not, let me know at christopherraymiller@gmail.com and I can send them to you. I'll also find my emails with the photographer so you can get in touch with her if you're interested.
I just happened to see your comment now, having come here to get the link for your discoveries on "Alibata" so I could share it with someone else.
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