Kulitan
Kulitan, also known as súlat Kapampángan and pamagkulit, is one of the various indigenous suyat writing systems in the Philippines. It was used for writing Kapampangan, a language mainly spoken in Central Luzon, until it was gradually replaced by the Latin alphabet.
| Kulitan Pamagkulit, Súlat Kapampángan | |
|---|---|
Modern Kulitan script | |
| Script type | |
Time period | Old Kapampangan c.1600s – 1900s Modern Kulitan 1900s – present |
| Direction | Right-to-left script, top-to-bottom |
| Languages | Kapampangan |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | |
Sister systems | In the Philippines: Baybayin Buhid Hanunó'o Tagbanwa script In other countries: Balinese Batak Javanese Lontara Sundanese Rencong Rejang |
[a] The Semitic origin of the Brahmic scripts is not universally agreed upon. | |
| Brahmic scripts |
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| The Brahmi script and its descendants |
Kulitan is an abugida, or an alphasyllabary — a segmental writing system in wherein consonant–vowel sequences are written as a unit and possess an inherent vowel sound that can be altered with use of diacritical marks. There is a proposal to encode the script in Unicode by Anshuman Pandey, from the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley. There are also proposals to revive the script by teaching it in Kapampangan-majority public and private schools.
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