Kulitan
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Kulitan is a reconstructed writing system in the Philippines based on baybayin, referred to as culit in the Kapampangan language of Central Luzon. Culit was used to write the language until it was gradually replaced by the Latin alphabet.
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- 1300-00-00
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Kulitan is a reconstructed writing system in the Philippines based on baybayin, referred to as culit in the Kapampangan language of Central Luzon. Culit was used to write the language until it was gradually replaced by the Latin alphabet.
Kulitan is an abugida, or an alphasyllabary — a segmental writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as a unit and possess an inherent vowel sound that can be altered with use of diacritical marks. There is a proposal to encode the script in Unicode by Anshuman Pandey, from the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley. There are also proposals to revive the script by teaching it in Kapampangan-majority public and private schools.