Abstract
This essay is primarily a demonstration of a tool written in Python for the computer-assisted reading of the ambahan poetry of the Hanunuo Mangyan ethnolinguistic group on the island of Mindoro. The software tool has been designed as a pedagogical aid for the human reading of ambahan texts as well as a research implement for the analysis of untranscribed and unstudied ambahan. Based on a knowledge of the internal workings of the Surat Mangyan writing system, the tool automatically generates different possible readings of an ambahan text based on an ambahan word list.KEYWORDS: HANUNUO MANGYAN • AMBAHAN • SURAT MANGYAN • BAYBAYIN • COMPUTER-AIDED READING
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Guillermo, Ramon; University
(2023)
"Magkunkuno ti Makina: Python Code for the Computer-Assisted Reading of Hanunuo Mangyan Ambahan,"
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints: Vol. 71:
No.
2, Article 2.
Available at:
https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol71/iss2/2
