TY  - ADVS
TI  - Philippine alphabets
KW  - Ancient scripts
KW  - 1887
KW  - a tagalog
KW  - anthropology
KW  - excavations
KW  - ilocano
KW  - letters
KW  - marche
KW  - pampango
KW  - robert fox
KW  - script
KW  - syallbary
KW  - tagbanu
KW  - writing
N1  - Marche gives a comparison of the Tagbanua alphabet and words with Tagalog, Bisayan, Ilocano and Pampango.  According to Robert Fox, the American anthropologist who has undertaken major excavations that have provided material evidence of Philippine prehistory, the documents available indicate at least 16 kinds of script or syllabary writing identified with different groups. Though there are variations, they all come from the same cultural tradition. (Kasaysayan: The Story of the Filipino People, Vol. 2)
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