KAPAMPANGAN ORTHOGRAPHY

by  Mike Pangilinan

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON ANCIENT
KAPAMPANGAN WRITING

on the formation of the vowels e and o as a monophtongization of the digthongs ai and au respectively:
 

 Gonzales, Andrew FSC.  Pampangan: Outline f a Generative Semantic Description, de la Salle University Press, Manila, 1972.
 
on specimens of ancient Kapampangan writing:
specimens from the 1699 manuscript of Ilmo. y Rmo Sr. Alvaro de Benavente:
        Marcilla, Cipriano, Antiguos Alfabetos Filipinos, Tipo-Litografia del Asilo Herfamos, Malabon, 1895,
num. 12, p.26.
 

specimens from Isabelo de los Reyes y Florentino:
        ibid, p. 31.

specimens from de Mas:
        ibid.
 
 

discussion on whether writing is vertical or horizontal, left to right or vice-versa:
 ibid.
 
 
on ancient writings in Luzon being vertical:
 
      Marsden William, History of Sumatra, (thevnot, Relation des Philippines par un religeux, traduite dún manuscrit Espangol du cabinet de Mons. Dom. Carlo del Pezzo [without date]), Oxford University Press, Oxford in Asia, Kuala Lumpur, 1966, p. 302, re: "...they used to write from top to bottom, till the Spaniards changed it from left to right..."
 

model specimen as comparative inferential basis for reconstruction of ancient Kapampangan writing:

        Postma, Anton, The Laguna Copper-Plate inscription (LCI): A Valuable Philippine Document, National Museum Papers (2), 1-25.
 

reconstructed through inference:  Siwala ding Meangubie

 

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Date Created: June 6, 1997
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