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Old 11th February 2009, 02:06 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Nonoy Tan
Albert,

Some scholars believe that the ancient scripts used in the Philippines and Batak have a common ancestry (Brahmi alphabet) , so as do all Indic and southeast Asian writings. It would be interesting to observe if our Tagbanwa and Hanunoo Mangyan brothers can recognize this script.

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Nonoy,

I believe that you are correct here. I noticed that the script on one of the Ifugao walking canes from the Northern Luzon Cordillera I just got from you looks very much like Batak.
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