Buhid language

Buhid
Buhid
ᝊᝓᝑᝒᝇ
Native to	Philippines
Region	MIMAROPA
Native speakers	(8,000 cited 1991)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine South Mangyan Buhid; ; ; ;
Writing system	Buhid
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bku
Glottolog	buhi1245

The Buhid language (Buhid: ᝊᝓᝑᝒᝇ) is a language spoken by Mangyans in the province of Mindoro, Philippines. It is divided into eastern and western dialects.

It uses the Buhid script, which is encoded in the Unicode-Block Buhid (Buid) (1740–175F).

References

^ Buhid at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

Barham, R. Marie. 1958. The phonemes of the Buhid (Mangyan) language of Eastern Mindoro, Philippines. Studies in Philippine linguistics 4-9. 4-9.
Pennoyer, F. Douglas. 1980. "Buhid and Tawbuid: A new subgrouping Mindoro, Philippines." In Paz B. Naylor (ed.), Austronesian studies: Papers from the Second Eastern Conference on Austronesian languages, 265-271. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan: Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies.

External links

Mangyan Heritage Center

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