The Philippine Scripts
Unicode 3.2 adds four additional scripts to write various languages of the Philippines. These four scripts are sandwiched into a comparatively small area of the Unicode encoding space, running from U+1700 to U+177F.[16]
[16] Most of the small amount of information on the Philippine scripts here comes from section 9.16 of PDUTR #28, supplemented by some material from Joel C. Kuipers and Ray McDermott, “Insular Southeast Asian Scripts,” The World's Writing Systems, pp. 474–484.
The four Philippine scripts are related to each other, probably descending from a common ancestor. They're clearly related to the Southeast Asian scripts, and probably came to the Philippines from Southeast Asia by way of Indonesia, possibly as late ...
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