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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.
A Filipino dha sword inscribed with baybayin characters. Baybayin is an abugida (alphasyllabary), which means that it makes use of consonant-vowel combinations. Each character or titik, [61] written in its basic form, is a consonant ending with the vowel /a/.
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]
One glance at Filipino social media and you will find a recurrent set of waves, twists and inverted heart shapes.
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.)
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).
Baybayin is an abugida which uses a system of diacritical marks to associate vowels with consonant symbols. The name Baybayin is Tagalog in origin and is used as an umbrella term that encompasses other Philippine variants known under other names in a number of other major Philippine ethnolinguistic domains, such as Badlit (in Visayas ), Kur ...
This is a list of the queen consorts of the major kingdoms and states that existed in present-day Philippines. Only the senior queens—i.e. those with the rank of Dayang ( "Lady" ) and Lakambini ( "Queen" )—are listed.