ᝊᝑᝒᝃ᝔

ISO 15924
Buhd
Family
Insular Southeast Asian
Type
abugida
Direction
LTR (left-to-right)
Baseline
bottom
Word separation
unspecified
Ligatures
optional
Status
Current
Unicode
true
Diacritics
true

The Buhid script is used to write the Buhid language, spoken by about 8,000 people in the Mindoro region of the Philippines. It is an indigenous abugida script of Brahmic origin. It is proposed that the Buhid, Hanunoo and Tagbanwa scripts share common origins with the Tagalog script, an extinct script from the same region, because of the many features they have in common. All four scripts are of the abugida type, with an a vowel inherent in each consonant. The inherent vowel can be modified by the addition of a diacritic, called a kulit. In the Buhid script the kulit takes the form of a horizontal line, added above (to produce i) or below (to produce u) the syllable, often forming a ligature. It is read horizontally, from left to right, and top to bottom.