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The ancient characters of Tagalog and Camarines people had its own character for /r/, in contrast to more common modern Baybayin version and Ilokano Kurdita. [66] In his time the kaldit was called kaholoan or holo according to Marcos de Lisboa , author of the earliest dictionary of Bikol.
Tagalog is a Unicode block containing characters of the Baybayin script, specifically the variety used for writing the Tagalog language before and during Spanish colonization of the Philippines eventually led to the adoption of the Latin alphabet. It has been a part of the Unicode Standard since version 3.2 in April 2002.
The characters are typically vertical with the /i/ diacritic on the left and the /u/ on the right, or horizontal with the /i/ on the top and the /u/ on the bottom. [5] Left-handed people often write in mirror image, which reverses both the direction of writing (right to left instead of left to right) and the characters themselves. [4]
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Old Tagalog; ᜆᜄᜎᜓ: Pronunciation [t̪ɐ̞gal̪og] Region: Philippines, particularly the present-day regions of Calabarzon and Mimaropa: Era: 10th century AD (developed into Classical Tagalog in c. 16th century; continued as modern Southern Tagalog dialects spoken in Aurora, [1] Calabarzon, and Mimaropa, most popular is the Batangas dialect.)
Lakan (Baybayin: ᜎᜃᜈ᜔) originally referred to a rank in the precolonial Filipino nobility in the island of Luzon, which means "paramount ruler." It has been suggested that this rank is equivalent to that of Rajah , and that different ethnic groups either used one term or the other, or used the two words interchangeably.
Hanunoo is a Unicode block containing characters used for writing the Hanunó'o language. It also contains the two punctuation marks ( ᜵ , and ᜶ ) which are unified characters for all the Philippine scripts (Baybayin, Hanunoo, Buhid and Tagbanwa).