Wednesday, April 28, 2010

[Baybayin] Sulat Something Something

Assume for the moment that a "reasonable" "historic" letter order is that found in Doctrina Cristiana:

A U E H P K S L T N B M G D/R Y NG W

Also for the moment, assume that our originator of this script lumped a few "leftover" letters at the end, following an order similar to Rejang and Bugis, for R, Y, and W, inserting NG between Y and W (and not too far removed from Kerinci, Lampung, and Sundanese, either).

Leaving the vowels alone, that leaves a potential mnemonic in the remaining consonants:

H P K S L T N B M G

Assume yet further that S-L is SU-LA "Sula(t)", a letter, a note, a jotting.

Then we have the following word-puzzle:

H P K SuLat T N B M G

Sadly, I'm not fluent in Tagalog of any era.

T-N /TiNu/ 'taught' ?

"HaPa(k), Ko SuLa(t), TiNu" B- M- G-

"broken, I have written and taught" ?


Of course I'm worse than a fool for even posting that attempt.

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