Hanunoo script

Hanunó'o (Mangyan Baybayin/Surat Mangyan) ᜱᜨᜳᜨᜳᜢ
Script type	Abugida
Time period	c. 1300–present
Direction	Left-to-right, bottom-to-top
Languages	Hanunó'o, Tagalog
Related scripts
Parent systems	Proto-Sinaitic script[a] Phoenician alphabet[a] Aramaic alphabet[a] Brāhmī Pallava Kawi Baybayin Hanunó'o (Mangyan Baybayin/Surat Mangyan)
Sister systems	In the Philippines: Buhid (Mangyan Baybayin, Surat Mangyan) Kulitan (Súlat Kapampángan) Tagbanwa script Ibalnan script In Indonesian Archipelago: Balinese Batak Javanese Lontara Sundanese Rencong Rejang
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Hano (371), ​Hanunoo (Hanunóo)
Unicode
Unicode alias	Hanunoo
Unicode range	U+1720–U+173F
[a] The Semitic origin of the Brahmic scripts is not universally agreed upon.

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Hanunoo (IPA: [hanunuʔɔ]), also rendered Hanunó'o, is one of the scripts indigenous to the Philippines and is used by the Mangyan peoples of southern Mindoro to write the Hanunó'o language.^[1][2]

It is an abugida descended from the Brahmic scripts, closely related to Sulat Tagalog, and is famous for being written vertical but written upward, rather than downward as nearly all other scripts (however, it is read horizontally left to right). It is usually written on bamboo by incising characters with a knife.^[3][4] Most known Hanunó'o inscriptions are relatively recent because of the perishable nature of bamboo. It is therefore difficult to trace the history of the script.^[2]